3900 Stony Point Rd, Keswick, VA 22947

Village Residential District

This district hereafter referred to as VR is created to establish a plan implementation zone that: Encourages residential development in areas of the county designated as village areas or town area in the comprehensive plan; Permits a variety of housing types; Provides incentives for residential development by allowing variations in lot size, density and frontage requirements; Encourages compact development; Permits related nonresidential development in order to increase the vitality and attractiveness of such areas as a living environment; Encourages creative design which allows for filling in of vacant areas and which is compatible with the character of existing lots and buildings; and-Permits agricultural uses in keeping with the village scale of development.; VR districts may be permitted in villages and town locations designated on the comprehensive plan using either locational guidelines therein or boundaries established by amendment to the comprehensive plan. It is further intended that VR districts will be located in such areas where no public water or sewerage service is available or in such areas partially or fully served by approved central water systems or central sewerage systems.