Planning Department: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

The following is a listing of FAQ topic areas relating to the Chesterfield County Planning Department.

Topic areas are listed alphabetically. Select the first letter of the word from the list below to jump to appropriate section of the services guide.

You may download the entire FAQ document in .pdf format at FAQs.pdf (1.16MB)

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• Accessory Buildings / Accessory Uses
• Administrative Variances
• Animals
• Appeals
• Application Forms
• Assessments

- B -

• Banners
• Board of Supervisors
• Board of Zoning Appeals
• Boats
• Buffers
• Building Additions
• Building Permits
• Buildable Residential Lots
• Building Setbacks
• Business Licenses

- C -

• Carports
• Car Repair
• Case (site plan, subdivision, zoning)
• CC&Rs (covenants, conditions and restrictions)
• Census Data
• Census Tracts
• Chickens
• Childcare
• Churches / Places of Worship
• Citizen Notification
• Code Enforcement
• Complaints
• Comprehensive Plan
• Conditional Use Permits
• Conditional Use Planned Development
• Conditions of Zoning
• Contact Information
• Covenants
• Crime Information

- D -

• Daycare
• Decks
• Demographics
• Development (Pending)
• Development Standards
• Development Standards Modifications
• Directions to Planning Department
• Dogs
• Driveways
• Dwelling Units Allowed

- E -

• Easements
• Enforcement

- F -

• Family Splits / Subdivisions
• Farms / Farming
• Fees
• Fences
• Final Check Subdivision Plats
• Floodplains / Flood Zones

- G -

• Garages
• Group Homes
• Growth

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- H -

• Height Limits
• Historical Preservation
• Home-based Businesses
• Horses
• Household Pets

- I -

• In-Law Units

- J -

• Junk

- K -

• Kennels

- L -

• Landscaping Requirements
• Land Use Plan

- M -

• Manufactured Homes
• Maps
• Minor Site Plan Review
• Mobile Homes
• Modular Homes

- N -

• Nonconforming Uses

- O -

• Outside Storage

- P -

• Parcel Number
• Parcel Plat Subdivisions
• Parking Restrictions
• Permitted Land Uses
• Planning
• Planning Commission
• Plats
• Population
• Proffers
• Property Lines
• Property Values
• Publications
• Public Facilities Plan
• Public Hearings

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- R -

• Real Estate Signs
• Record Plats
• Recreational Vehicles
• Resource Protection Areas
• Restricted Uses
• Rezoning

- S -

• Satellite Dishes
• Setbacks
• Schematic Plan
• Second Dwelling Units
• Sheds
• Signs
• Site Plans
• Special Exceptions
• Staff Reports
• Storage Buildings
• Subdivision Ordinance
• Subdivisions
• Substantial Accords
• Survey Plat
• Swimming Pools

- T -

• Tax Map Number
• Tentative Subdivision Plats
• Tool Sheds
• Trailers
• Transportation

- U -

• Uses Permitted

- V -

• Validation Plats
• Variances
• Vehicle Repair

- W -

• Walls

--Y -

• Yard Sales

- Z -

• Zoning Amendments
• Zoning Certificates
• Zoning Districts
• Zoning Ordinance
• Zoning: Permitted Uses
• Zoning Violation

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