Rockingham County Unincorporated

Animal waste on the commercial breeding kennel premises... shall be managed at all times in accordance with best management practices...

The following area, setback, and height standards shall apply to all zoning districts set forth in article III, districts, conventional, and article IV, districts, planned, of this chapter.

Uses, prohibited. Any use not specifically permitted by right or special use permit shall be prohibited.

Uses, special. A special use which may be allowed when the board of supervisors, after review of the application and hearing thereon, finds as a fact that the proposed use or uses are consistent with the comprehensive plan and the policies of the county, the standards of this chapter and the public interest.

Uses, permitted. A use which is allowed in the district in which the land is situated. Where the proposed use is permitted and is in accordance with other regulations herein, the use shall be permitted by the zoning administrator, without a public hearing.

Sign, temporary. Any sign, banner, pennant, valance, or advertising display constructed of cloth, canvas, light fabric, cardboard, wallboard, or other materials with or without frames intended to be displayed for a period of not more than twenty-one (21) consecutive days within any one-hundred-twenty-day period.

Sign. Any words, lettering, parts of letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names or marks, or combinations thereof, by which anything is made known, such as the designation of an individual, a firm, an association, a profession, a business, a commodity, or product, which are visible from any public way and used as an outdoor display. A display of less than one (1) square foot in area is excluded from this definition.

Lot, pipe stem or flag. A lot where access to the public road is by a right-of-way or driveway not less than twenty (20) feet in width.

Story, half. A space under a sloping roof, which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wall face not more than three (3) feet above the top floor level and in which space of not more than two-thirds of the floor space is finished off for use.

Utility building, small. A single-story building of five hundred eighty (580) square feet or less for use as a non-commercial, non-residential, accessory structure located on a lot that has no primary structure.

Utility building, large. A building of more than five hundred eighty (580) square feet for use as a non-commercial, non-residential, accessory structure located on a lot that has no primary structure.

Temporary family health care structure. A transportable residential structure, providing an environment facilitating a caregiver's provision of care for a mentally or physically impaired person, that (i) is primarily assembled at a location other than its site of installation, (ii) is limited to one (1) occupant who shall be the mentally or physically impaired person, (iii) has no more than three hundred (300) gross square feet, and (iv) complies with applicable provisions of the Industrialized Building Safety Law (section 36-70 et seq. of the Code of Virginia) and the Uniform Statewide Building Code (section 36-97 et seq. of the Code of Virginia). Placing the temporary family health care structure on a permanent foundation shall not be permitted.

Site plan, minor. Any required site plan meeting the following criteria: 1. The site development involves new construction or use of less than one thousand (1,000) square feet of gross floor area. 2. The site development involves an addition to an approved site and the addition is less than twenty-five hundred (2,500) square feet of gross floor area and has no increase in the parking required in this chapter or a change in utilities. 3. The site does not require additional ingress/egress or alteration of existing ingress/egress. 4. The site does not require engineering work to develop the building or site.

Solar energy facility, small. An energy conversion system consisting of photovoltaic panels, support structures, and associated control, conversion, and transmission hardware occupying no more than twenty-five (25) percent coverage of the parcel, not to exceed two (2) acres.

Solar energy facility, large. An energy conversion system consisting of photovoltaic panels, their support structures, and associated infrastructure, such as but not limited to control, conversion, and transmission hardware, and energy storage systems, occupying more than two (2) acres of total land area. "Occupying" means actual ground coverage, not acreage of the parcel on which the facility is installed.

Wind energy system, large scale. A wind energy conversion system with a structure height greater than eighty (80) feet or a rated output of electrical power production equipment greater than five (5) megawatts.

Wind energy system, small. A wind energy conversion system with a maximum power that does not exceed one hundred (100) kw, which will be used primarily to reduce on-site consumption of utility power.

Hog operation. An enterprise in which hogs are kept and raised, regularly involving the use or presence of one (1) or both of the following: (a) two (2) or more acres of non-vegetative land (excluding land used for crops) and used for confined feeding, growing, raising, or birthing of hogs prior to slaughter; or (b) an enclosed confinement structure containing five hundred (500) or more square feet of floor space primarily for such enterprise.

Impound lot. A lot on which wrecked vehicles awaiting insurance settlement or vehicles impounded by law enforcement are kept for no more than one hundred eighty (180) days or repossessed vehicles by a lending institution.

Vehicle, inoperable. Any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, as those vehicles are defined in section 46.2-100 of the Virginia Code, which has one (1) or more of the following characteristics: (i) it is not in operating condition; (ii) it does not display valid license plates if the vehicle is required by state law to display valid license plates; (iii) it does not display an inspection decal if the vehicle is required by state law to display a valid inspection decal; or (iv) it displays an inspection decal that has been expired for more than sixty (60) days.