Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
SR-1
Semi-Rural Residential District
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 1 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.
- 43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 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 residential 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 an 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 a side street shall be 20 feet.
From the ordinance
The minimum lot size shall be one acre; one dwelling unit per lot shall be allowed. The minimum lot width shall be 100 feet. The maximum lot coverage shall be 25 percent. All buildings shall be setback a minimum of 35 feet from the front property line.