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• AN ORDINANCE <br />AMENDING AND REORDAINING SECTION 34-138 OF ARTICLE IV, <br />AND SECTION 34-581 OF ARTICLE XXVIII, OF CHAPTER 34 <br />OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, 1990, <br />AS AMENDED, RELATING TO BY -RIGHT USES IN R-1 DISTRICTS <br />AND ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF PROJECTS ELIGIBLE <br />FOR HISTORIC REHABILITATION TAX CREDITS. <br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that Section <br />34-138 of Article IV and Section 34-581 of Article XXVIII, of Chapter 34 of the Charlottesville <br />City Code, 1990, as amended, are hereby amended and reordained as follows: <br />ARTICLE IV. R-1 RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT <br />Section 34-138. Permitted uses - By right. <br />The following uses shall be permitted by right in the R-1 District: <br />(1) Single-family detached dwellings; provided, that residence therein shall be limited <br />to not more than four (4) unrelated persons. Single-family detached dwelling <br />shall be a permitted use. However, any two-family dwelling which was <br />. completely constructed with all plumbing fixtures installed and the two-family <br />dwellings for which a City building permit has been issued and which were at <br />least twenty (20) percent constructed on the site prior to December 31, 1964, shall <br />be considered a conforming use. Such conforming two-family dwellings shall not <br />be expanded or enlarged after November 1, 1999. For purposes of this section, <br />the phrase "expanded or enlarged" shall mean any exterior alterations or exterior <br />additions which increase the potential occupancy of the dwelling. <br />ARTICLE XVIII. HISTORICAL PRESERVATION AND ARCHITECTURAL <br />DESIGN CONTROL DISTRICTS <br />Section 34-581. Administrative approval and procedures. <br />(a) Regardless of language in this article which may state otherwise, an owner may <br />obtain a certificate of appropriateness from the Director of planning Neighborhood Planning and <br />Development Services, or his designee, rather than the BAR for the following tnitter exterior <br />alterations which are shown, through adequate documentation, to have been approved for a tax <br />credit under either the federal rehabilitation tax credit program or the similar Virginia state tax <br />• credit program: and for the following minor exterior alterations: <br />