The purpose of residential district, R-1, is to provide for low-density single-family detached residential development plus certain open areas where similar residential development appears likely to occur and together with those public and semi-public uses and accessory uses as may be necessary or are normally compatible with residential surroundings. In general, residential development is planned and utilities and public services exist or are planned to be adequate for the type or types of development contemplated. An alternative to the basic area and dimensional regulations of this district may be employed to permit cluster development with the objective of improved use of the land and more economical provision of streets and utilities.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.1)

In a residential district R-1, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses:

(1)

Detached single-family dwellings.

(2)

Modular homes, as herein defined.

(3)

Bed and breakfast inn, with a conditional use permit.

(4)

Churches and Sunday schools, rectories, parish houses, convents and monasteries, temples and synagogues and cemeteries accessory thereto.

(5)

Cemeteries not accessory to a church with a conditional use permit.

(6)

Convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged, and family care homes, with a conditional use permit.

(7)

Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths and the like for electrical power distribution or communication service, and underground pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations which are permitted with a conditional use permit.

(8)

Home occupations, urban.

(9)

Hospital or clinic for humans with a conditional use permit.

(10)

Housing or dormitory facilities associated with schools, churches, and recognized nonprofit organizations, with a conditional use permit.

(11)

Nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery, child day care centers or adult day health care center with a conditional use permit.

(12)

Private schools, colleges or universities with a conditional use permit.

(13)

Public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings except those which have been approved as a part of the subdivision plan, with a conditional use permit.

(14)

Radio or television transmission or receiving station or tower less than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height; tower more than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height with a conditional use permit.

(15)

Recreational uses or facilities, commercially operated or for a private membership, such as golf courses, country clubs, game courts, swimming pools, archery range, and fishing or boating lakes, or similar activities, and accessory facilities, including sale of food, beverages, bait, incidentals, supplies and equipment, with a conditional use permit.

(16)

Stable, private, for keeping of horses, ponies or other livestock for personal enjoyment and not as a business, provided that any building for keeping of animals shall be located at least one hundred (100) feet from any side or rear lot line, with a conditional use permit.

(16.1)

Livestock, with a conditional use permit.

(17)

School bus passenger shelter without advertising.

(17.1)

Wireless communication facilities per section 18-427 of this chapter.

(18)

Yard sale or garage sale for disposal of used household items, provided such sales are not held more frequently than twice a year on the same lot, are not conducted for more than three (3) days, and include items assembled only from households in the immediate neighborhood.

(19)

Accessory buildings and uses, including, but not limited to, accessory private garages, an accessory dwelling unit per section 18-424(h)(8), and other structures, swimming pools, temporary family health care structures, as prescribed by §15.2-2292.1 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, accessory storage and accessory off-street parking and loading spaces and accessory nonilluminated or indirectly illuminated signs as follows:

a.

A name plate or directional sign, limited in area to two (2) square feet, to identify the owner or occupant of a dwelling or building.

b.

A sign limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet for identification of a permitted home occupation.

c.

No trespassing or no hunting signs, without limitations on number or placement, limited in area to two (2) square feet.

d.

A sign, limited in area to twelve (12) square feet advertising products raised or made on the premises.

e.

A sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet for identification of a farm or estate or a subdivision or its occupants.

f.

A sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, for a church bulletin board or identification of permitted public or semi-public uses, wildlife reservations, recreational uses, or clubs.

g.

Temporary nonilluminated signs, limited in area to four (4) square feet, directing the way to premises which are for sale or rent.

h.

A temporary, nonilluminated sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, advertising real estate for sale or lease or announcing contemplated improvements of the real estate on which it is placed.

i.

A temporary sign, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet, erected in connection with new construction work and displayed on the premises only during such time as the actual construction work is in progress.

j.

Temporary signs at appropriate locations, on or off the premises, for direction of the traveling public, truck deliveries and employees to an activity or event, a church, school, historic place, subdivision or community, a construction site or excavation, airport, or other center of employment or visitor center or recreation facility in an isolated area of the county, limited in area to thirty-two (32) square feet and subject to approval of location, design, and wording, by the administrator. This permitted sign is not intended as an ordinary advertising device.

k.

Temporary nonilluminated paper signs.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.2; Ord. of 9-23-02(2); Ord. of 10-24-11; Ord. of 12-21-15(5); Ord. of 7-22-19, § 1)

The minimum lot area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet for lots having either public water or sewer facilities; thirty thousand (30,000) square feet for lots having neither public water nor sewer facilities. Averaging lot area and cluster subdivisions are permitted in article XV.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.3; Ord. of 12-19-05(2))

Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, structures shall be at least fifty (50) feet from any street right-of-way, except that where an addition is planned to an existing nonconforming structure, such an addition may extend or project into the required front yard provided such addition does not extend or project any closer to the street right-of-way than the original structure and provided that such addition does not exceed fifty (50) percent of the gross floor area of the existing structure, except that permitted signs may be erected up to ten (10) feet from the street right-of-way. On a U.S. highway structures other than signs shall be set back at least one hundred (100) feet from the street right-of-way and on a primary highway at least seventy-five (75) feet.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.4; Ord. of 5-24-93)

Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, the minimum lot frontage shall be twenty-five (25) feet.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.5)

Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, the minimum lot width shall be one hundred (100) feet.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.6)

(a)

Side. The minimum side yard for each main structure in an R-1 district shall be ten (10) feet and the total width of the two (2) required side yards shall be at least twenty-five (25) feet.

(b)

Rear. Each main structure shall have a rear yard of thirty-five (35) feet or more.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.7)

Buildings in an R-1 district may be erected up to thirty-five (35) feet in height; except, that:

(1)

The height limit of dwellings may be increased ten (10) feet and up to three (3) stories; provided, that there are two (2) side yards for each permitted use, each of which is fifteen (15) feet or more plus one (1) foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over thirty-five (35) feet.

(2)

A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, library or hospital may be erected to a height of sixty (60) feet from grade; provided, that required front, side and rear yards shall be increased one (1) foot for each foot in height over thirty-five (35) feet.

(3)

Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flagpoles and television antennae and radio aerials less than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet in height, are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four (4) feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.

(4)

No accessory building which is within twenty (20) feet of any party lot line shall be more than one (1) story high. All accessory buildings shall be less than the main building in height and no accessory building shall be more than fifteen (15) feet in height.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.8)

(a)

Of the two (2) sides of a corner lot in an R-1 district the front shall be deemed to be the shortest of the two (2) sides fronting on streets.

(b)

The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be thirty-five (35) feet or more for both main and accessory building.

(c)

Each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of one hundred twenty-five (125) feet.

(d)

Landscaping of corner lots shall be limited to plantings, fences or other landscaping features of no more than three (3) feet in height within the space between the setback line and the property line on the street side of the lot.

(Ord. of 6-18-90, § 19-5.9)