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Planning board approves UDO text amendment setting 15-foot side/rear minimum setbacks for nonresidential parcels
Summary
The board voted unanimously to amend the Unified Development Ordinance to set a 15-foot minimum side and rear setback for nonresidential parcels that abut other nonresidential parcels, aligning setback language with the existing 15-foot landscape buffer and state fire-code spacing.
The Rockingham County Planning Board on March 10 unanimously approved a text amendment to the county Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that establishes a 15-foot minimum side and rear setback for nonresidential zoning districts that abut other nonresidential districts.
A planning staff presenter explained the amendment was intended to formalize a de facto practice: the UDO already requires a 15-foot-wide landscape buffer for nonresidential parcels,…
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