Planning Department FAQs

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

A 

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

B  

• Banners
• Board of Supervisors
• Board of Zoning Appeals
• Boats
• Buffers
• Building Addition
• Building Permit
• Buildable Residential Lot
• Building Setbacks
• Business License

C 

• Carport
• 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
• Conditional Use Planned Development
• Conditions of Zoning
• Contact Information
• Covenants
• Crime Information

 D 

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

E 

• Easements
• Enforcement

F 

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

G 

• Garages
• Group Homes
• Growth

 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 Subdivision
• Parking Restrictions
• Permitted Land Uses
• Planning
• Planning Commission
• Plats
• Population
• Proffers
• Property Lines
• Property Values
• Publications
• Public Facilities Plan
• Public Hearings

- R - 

• Real Estate Signs
• Record Plat
• Recreational Vehicles
• Resource Protection Area
• Restricted Uses
• Rezoning

- S - 

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

- T - 

• Tax Map Number
• Temporary Health Care Unit
• 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 Certificate
• Zoning Districts
• Zoning Ordinance
• Zoning: Permitted Uses
• Zoning Violation