Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
SR-5
Semi-Rural Residential District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 0.2 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
- Maximum units
- 1
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right6
- Group home
- Home employment
- Home occupation
- Home sales office
- Noncommercial keeping or breeding of exotic birds and miniature animals
- One-family dwelling (one per lot)
Conditional / special use17
- Adult day center
- Bed and breakfast
- Child care facility
- Civic club
- Community operated parks, clubhouses, swimming pools, racquet ball and tennis courts, health and fitness facilities, and other recreational or civic facilities
- Country club
- Golf course
- Home business
- Lodging house
- Nursing home
- Private school, including boarding of students
- Recovery home
- Recreation facility, commercial, outdoor
- Religious institution or place of religious worship
- Retail sales/breeding of exotic birds and miniature animals
- Satellite parking
- Shelters for the homeless
Accessory1
- Community operated parks, clubhouses, swimming pools, racquet ball and tennis courts, health and fitness facilities, and other recreational or civic facilities
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Site plan required for nonresidential uses
No primary nonresidential use may be commenced in any semi-rural district except upon approval of a site plan.
Setback
- Buffer setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from commercial/office25 ft
Where adjoining property is zoned commercial or office, the minimum setback for the principal building from the common property line shall be 25 feet.
- Buffer setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from industrial35 ft
Where adjoining property is zoned industrial, such minimum setback shall be 35 feet.
- Corner lot side street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.20 ft
For a corner lot, the minimum side setback abutting the side street shall be 20 feet.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot size shall be five acres; one dwelling unit per lot shall be allowed. The minimum lot width along all streets shall be 100 feet. Maximum lot coverage shall be 25 percent. All buildings shall be set back a minimum of 50 feet from the front property line.