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):
A. 
Accessory uses as defined in § 175-2.2.
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.
C. 
Cemeteries.
D. 
Churches.
E. 
Cluster development of single-family dwellings.
F. 
Drainage, erosion and flood control facilities.
G. 
Dwelling, single-family.
H. 
Dwelling, two-family, subject to § 175-15.15.
I. 
Forestry.
J. 
Home occupations in accordance with § 175-15.5A.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: This subsection was revised at the County's request pursuant to an ordinance adopted 12-17-2019.
K. 
Libraries.
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.
M. 
Museums.
N. 
Recycling location (dropoff) with a total capacity of 10 cubic yards or less.
O. 
Schools.
P. 
Short-term vacation rental, subject to the provisions of § 175-15.28.
Q. 
Signs, subject to Article 13.
R. 
Subdivisions, major.
S. 
Subdivisions, minor.
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.
A. 
Aviation facility.
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.
F. 
Day-care centers.
G. 
Governmental offices.
H. 
Farmer's market.
I. 
Fire, rescue squad and police stations.
J. 
Home enterprise in accordance with § 175-15.5B.
[Added 12-17-2019[1]]
[1]
Editor's Note: Pursuant to this ordinance, former Subsections J through V were redesignated as Subsections K through W, respectively.
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.
M. 
Office buildings.
N. 
Post offices.
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.
S. 
Schools.
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[2] as being subject to inundation by waters of the one-hundred-year flood event.
[2]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 63, Floodplain Management.
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[3]]
[3]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also redesignated former Subsection V as Subsection U.
W. 
Youth center, private.
A. 
Lot size. The minimum lot area for each principal permitted uses shall be:
(1) 
Twenty-five thousand square feet if central sewer or both central water and sewer are provided and other requirements of the Health Department and this chapter are met; or
(2) 
Thirty-five thousand square feet if individual on-site facilities for sewer only or both water and sewer are provided and other requirements of the Health Department and this chapter are met.
B. 
Setback regulations. Buildings on all public or private rights-of-way shall be set back 50 feet or more from the edge of right-of-way.
C. 
Frontage and lot width regulations. The minimum frontage for permitted uses shall be 24 feet on any street or right-of-way and 100 feet at the setback line.
D. 
Yard regulations.
(1) 
Side: The minimum side yard for each main building shall be 10 feet, and the total width of the two required side yards shall be 20 feet or more. The minimum side yard for accessory buildings shall be five feet.
(2) 
Rear: Each main building shall have a rear yard of 50 feet or more. Each accessory building shall have a rear yard of five feet.
A. 
Buildings and accessory buildings and structures may be erected up to 50 feet in height.
B. 
Public utility buildings, church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, chimneys, flues, flag poles, television antennae and radio aerials are exempt. Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
A. 
Of the two sides of a corner lot, the front shall be deemed the shorter of the two sides fronting on streets.
B. 
The minimum side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 40 feet or more for both main and accessory buildings.
Sign regulations shall conform to Article 13 of this chapter.
Off-street parking shall be provided in conformance with Article 12 of this chapter.