1641 Smithland Rd, Harrisonburg, VA 22802

Small Lot Residential District-Conditional

This district is intended for medium- to high-density residential together with certain governmental, educational, religious, recreational, and utility uses subject to restrictions and requirements necessary to ensure compatibility with residential surroundings. Residential development includes single-family detached, duplex, and in special circumstances townhouse development. Vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle transportation is facilitated through a connected system of roads, sidewalks, and shared use paths, so as to provide many choices with regard to mode and route, and to provide a safe and comfortable pedestrian environment that promotes walkability for residents and visitors.; Conditional zoning: Where competing and incompatible uses conflict, traditional zoning methods and procedures are sometimes inadequate. In such cases, more flexible and adaptable zoning methods are needed to permit differing land uses and at the same time to recognize effects of change. City council may accept proffers pursuant to Virginia Code 15.2-2303 and 15.2-2303.4 whereby a zoning reclassification may be allowed subject to certain conditions proffered by the zoning applicant for the protection of the community even though said conditions may not be generally applicable to land similarly zoned. While the conditions may vary from property to property by reason of the nature of the use and different circumstances at a particular location, it is not the intention of this section to authorize conditions limited to a particular individual or group, owner or operator, and the provisions of this section shall not be used for purpose of discrimination in housing.