This residential district is composed chiefly of single-family
dwellings, two-family dwellings, together with necessary recreational,
religious, and educational facilities. Home occupations should be
permitted along with transient residential uses such as boarding houses
and tourist homes. Certain types of commercial uses are permitted
upon obtaining a conditional use permit from the governing body.
[Amended 9-22-2015; 10-25-2016]
The following uses shall be permitted subject to all the other
requirements of this chapter as a matter of right in the Residential-2
District (R-2):
B. Agriculture, including the growing of fruit, forest, field, vegetable
crops and, for personal and home occupation uses only, fowl and animal
handling and containment, excluding hogs; grain dryers, feeder lots,
dairy barns, agricultural lagoons, poultry and hog houses and other
structures or areas involving the concentrated handling or containment
of animals and fowl are excluded.
E. Cluster development of single-family dwellings.
F. Drainage, erosion and flood control facilities.
L. Manufactured homes, individual, where:
(1)
The minimum lot size and width as well as the front, side and
rear yards setback shall be doubled for the respective zoning districts
and the maximum height allowed will be 25 feet measured from the bottom
to the top of the manufactured home.
(2)
The electricity meter base shall not be attached to the manufactured
home.
(3)
All manufactured homes shall be skirted with some type of uniform
durable weatherproof material, and installed with a set of permanent
steps at each exit.
N. Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity of 10 cubic yards
or less.
P. Short-term vacation rental, subject to the provisions of §
175-15.28.
Q. Signs, subject to Article 13.
T. Utility use, minor.
[Amended 2-23-2021]
U. Wayside stands, roadside stands, and wayside markets.
[Amended 9-22-2015; 10-25-2016; 7-28-2020]
The following uses shall be permitted in the Residential-2 District
(R-2), subject to all the other requirements of this chapter, only
upon obtaining of a conditional use permit from the Board of Supervisors.
B. Bed-and-breakfast
establishment.
C. Community-operated
playgrounds, parks and similar community recreational facilities.
D. Conditional sewage disposal permits granted by the Virginia Department
of Health for less than year-round occupancy.
E. Country clubs, golf courses and tennis clubs.
I. Fire, rescue squad and police stations.
J. Home enterprise in accordance with §
175-15.5B.
[Added 12-17-2019]
K. Light manufacturing and craft industries as defined in §
175-2.2.
L. Manufactured homes, individual, which are not permitted by §
175-7.2, where:
(1)
The minimum lot size and width as well as the front, side and
rear yards setback shall be doubled for the respective zoning districts
and the maximum height allowed will be 25 feet measured from the bottom
to the top of the manufactured home.
(2)
The electricity meter base shall not be attached to the manufactured
home.
(3)
All manufactured homes shall be skirted with some type of uniform
durable weatherproof material, and installed with a set of permanent
steps at each exit.
O. Professional offices in occupant's dwelling.
P. Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity in excess of 10
cubic yards.
Q. Rehabilitation and group homes or centers as defined in §
175-2.2.
R. Retail stores and shops, including storage facilities and neighborhood
grocery stores.
T. Sewage treatment systems (private) where the subject lot or parcel
shall be located outside the area identified by the Floodplain Management
Ordinance of Mathews County as being subject to inundation by waters of the one-hundred-year
flood event.
U. Travel trailers (licensed), located outside of travel trailer parks, which are to be occupied for habitation on a temporary basis, other than allowed by §
175-15.3B, if the Board of Supervisors grants a temporary conditional use permit and if the applicant agrees in writing to remove the travel trailer on or before the period specified in the permit.
V. Utility
use, major.
[Added 2-23-2021]
Sign regulations shall conform to Article 13 of this chapter.
Off-street parking shall be provided in conformance with Article
12 of this chapter.