Stafford County Unincorporated

Overnight parking. The parking of any operable vehicle during the hours of 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. excluding temporary parking for loading activities.

Principal building. One or more of the larger buildings within a planned-traditional neighborhood development (P-TND) zoning district, situated at a prominent location, with vehicular access from at least one principal street. The neighborhood design standards plan shall establish upgraded architectural standards for principal buildings. At least fifty (50) percent of the square footage of the buildings in the development shall be defined as principal buildings.

RV park. A plot of ground upon which two (2) or more sites are located, established or maintained for occupancy by recreational vehicles.

Hospital. A facility and/or associated use required to be licensed as a hospital in accordance with the Code of Virginia, or a facility providing and/or associated with 'service...

Home business I. An occupation, profession, business, trade, e-commerce, or handicraft, carried on by the occupant of a single-family dwelling as an accessory use...

A wall or freestanding sign not exceeding six (6) square feet in area, not exceeding five (5) feet in height, and not illuminated.

Any sign intended to be displayed for a limited period, not to exceed sixty (60) days in duration for no more than two (2) sixty-day periods in a calendar year...

Any means of property access that serves three (3) or more distinct properties, other than an alley intended to provide access to the rear of lots, designed in accordance with traffic-carrying capacities, specified by the standards of the county or the Virginia Department of Transportation's Maintenance Log of Functional Classification, whichever is applicable.

A street that carries or is anticipated to carry a volume of traffic less than four hundred (400) vehicles per day; with a right-of-way width of fifty (50) feet to one hundred twenty (120) feet; these streets provide direct access to adjacent land and provide access to higher systems.

A street that carries or is anticipated to carry a volume of traffic between one thousand and one (1,001) and five thousand five hundred (5,500) vehicles per day; with a right-of-way width of ninety (90) feet; these streets provide service to large communities or other major traffic generators not served by the arterial system.

Streets which interconnect and supplement the principal arterial system with a greater emphasis on land access and a lower level of traffic mobility. Right-of-way widths may vary from ninety (90) feet to one hundred forty (140) feet.

A street that carries or is anticipated to carry a volume of traffic between four hundred and one (401) and one thousand (1,000) vehicles per day; with a right-of-way width of fifty-six (56) feet to sixty-four (64) feet; these streets provide land access service and traffic circulation within residential, commercial and industrial areas.

A street type limited to residential areas in the UD zoning district that serves two hundred fifty (250) vehicles a day or less.

A street or highway anticipated to carry a volume of traffic exceeding three thousand (3,000) vehicles per day, designed and maintained as a part of the Virginia Primary System.

A landscape strip, fence or wall located on the frontage line of a street or coplanar with the facade, at a minimum height of three (3) feet, for the purpose of demarcating the edge of a parking lot at the street frontage or demarcating the principal street frontage line.

Anything constructed, installed or portable, the use of which requires a location on a parcel of land, and which extends more than twelve (12) inches above the ground at any point.

The expansion or modification of a building or development that would result in a disturbance of land exceeding an area of two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet in the land resource management area only.

Damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed fifty (50) percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty (50) percent of the market value of the structure before the "commencement of construction" of the improvement.

Any surface which extends outward at right angles (ninety (90) degree angles) to the airport runway centerline and extend at a slope of seven (7) feet horizontally for each foot vertically from the sides of the primary and approach surfaces to where they interest the horizontal and conical surfaces.