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Chapter 10--Article I: General Provisions

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Zoning Amendment Chart

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ordinance Number 1999-12, adopted December 13, 1999, repealed Ch. 10 in its entirety and enacted similar provisions. To maintain the alphanumeric style of this Code of Ordinances, sections have been renumbered and the original ordinance designations are carried in the history notes. Former Ch. 10 derived from the 1975 Code and additional ammendatory ordinances, the history of which can be found in the Code Comparative Table at the back of the County Code. CROSS-REFERENCES: Administration, Ch.2; animals, Ch. 3; licenses, permits and business regulations, Ch. 5; planning and development, Ch. 8; solid waste; planning commission §2-10; industrial development authority, §2-12; location of flea markets, §5-158; application of erosion and sediment control provisions, §8-811 et seq.; small-lot subdivisions in nonresidential zone, §8-173; street names, numbers for houses and lots, §8-200 et seq. STATE LAW REFERENCES: Codification of zoning ordinance, Code of Virginia, §15.1-37.3; zoning, Code of Virginia, §15.1-486 et seq.

NOTE from Web Editor: References to the Code of Virginia are not correct. Codification of Zoning Ordinances is dealt with in §15.2-1433--Codification and recodification of ordinances. Zoning is addressed primarily in §§10.1.2100-2110, 2113-14, 2119; §10.1.2202; §10.1.600; and §§15.2-2201 eq seq.

§10-1 Title, Purpose and Intent

10-1 (1) Title

10-2 (2) Purpose and Intent

§10-2 Application of Ordinance

10-2 (1) Territorial Application

10-2 (2) General Application

10-2 (3) General Prohibition

10-2 (4) Compliance with Chapter Required

10-2 (5) Exemptions

10-2 (6) Relationship to Private Agreements

10-2 (7) Zoning of Annexed Land

10-2 (8) Effect of Chapter on Existing Plans, Permits and Lots

10-2 (9) Effect of Chapter on Existing Districts

10-2 (10) Effective Date

10-2 (11) Calculation of Density

10-2 (12) Authorization for Constructing Public Facilities

§10-3 INTERPRETATION OF ZONING ORDINANCE AND MAP

10-3 (1) Provisions Are Minimum Requirements

10-3 (2) Interpretation of Terms

10-3 (3) Unspecified Uses

10-3 (4) Adding Unspecified Uses

10-3 (5) Methods of Measuring Lots, Yards and Related Terms

Regular lots, width measurement

Regular lots, determination of front yard

Regular lots, yards adjacent to street

Regular yards on interior regular lots

Yards on corner lots

Side yards on regular lots

Irregular lots, dimensional requirements

Irregular lots, yard requirements

Setback measurements from streets

§10-4 ZONING MAP AND DISTRICT BOUNDARIES

§10-5 LOT USE REGULATIONS

10-5 (1) Lots and Yards

10-5 (2) Use of Two or More Lots to Satisfy Zoning Requirements

10-5 (3) One Principal Use Permitted Per Lot

§10-6 CONDITIONAL ZONING

§10-7 SEVERABILITY

§10-8 DISTRICTS ESTABLISHED

§§10-9 - 10-20 RESERVED.

 

 

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