Amelia County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIII
R-2 Residential District
§ 325-13.1 Intent.
This district is composed of certain medium to high concentration of residential uses plus certain open areas where similar development appears likely to occur. The regulations of this district are designed to stabilize and protect the essential characteristics of the district, to promote and encourage, insofar as compatible with the intensity of land use, a suitable environment for family life. The residential district is not completely residential in that it includes public and semipublic, institutional, and other related uses. However, it is basically residential in character and, as such, should not be located with commercial and industrial uses.
§ 325-13.2 Permitted uses.
A.
Accessory structures and uses.
B.
Day-care center and nursery.
C.
Family division.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
D.
Home day care.
E.
Home occupation.
F.
Large lot division.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
G.
Multifamily dwelling.
H.
Off-street parking.
I.
Parks and playgrounds.
J.
Public utilities (extension).
K.
Rooming house or boardinghouse, tourist or rest home.
L.
Single cut subdivision.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
M.
Subdivision, major.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
N.
Subdivision, minor.
[Amended 12-17-2003]
O.
Two-family dwelling.
P.
Wireless support structures up to 80 feet.
[Amended 2-21-2018]
§ 325-13.3 Permitted uses by special exception.
A.
Bed-and-breakfast.
§ 325-13.4 Accessory uses.
§ 325-13.6 Building height.
Thirty five feet, except:
A.
The height limit for dwellings may be increased up to 45 feet and up to three stories, provided there are two side yards for each permitted use, each of which is 20 feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.
B.
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, or library may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade, provided that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot of building height over 35 feet.
C.
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, silos, barns, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles, and wireless support structures are exempt. Parapet wall may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
[Amended 2-21-2018]
D.
No accessory building which is less than 20 feet from any lot line shall be more than one story high. All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height.