Loudoun County, VA · Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance
Loudoun County's zoning layer carries this parcel as C-1, a district of the county's 1972 Zoning Ordinance. The 2023 Zoning Ordinance gives C-1 no Chapter 2 district standards table and no column in any Chapter 3 Use Table, so we will not tell you what is permitted here from the 2023 ordinance -- we would be reading you the wrong book. Sec. 10.10.10 and Table 10.10.10-1 name Commercial Center - Community Center as the equivalent 2023 district that would be applied on approval of a Zoning Conversion in the Route 28 Tax District -- that is a conversion rule, not a statement that Commercial Center - Community Center governs your parcel today. Contact Loudoun County Planning and Zoning for the 1972 ordinance provisions that apply to your parcel.
Development standards in C1
Maximum height
Set by the 1972 Zoning Ordinance provisions that apply to this district, which are not set forth in the 2023 Zoning Ordinance -- it carries no standards table for this district at all — see 10.10.10
A standard shown as "set by" is banded in the ordinance — it depends on what you build or on the lot itself, so no single figure is true for the whole zone. The cited table is the authority; read the tier that matches your intended structure.
Read from Loudoun County Zoning Ordinance, effective through 2025-03-18.
How complete is this market? Across 107,655 parcels we answer 85.5% of the 6 questions this site is built to answer, each with a source you can check. The rest are shown as “not recorded” rather than filled in — we would rather be short than wrong. A further 18,974 properties inside the county line are zoned by an incorporated town with its own ordinance, not by the county, so this county ordinance does not govern them and they are not counted above or below — which is why we publish this market as Loudoun County (excl. incorporated towns). Look one of those up and we will tell you which town governs it.
Permitted uses in C1
ConditionalUses under the 1972 Zoning Ordinance The 2023 Zoning Ordinance carries no Use Table column for C-1. Sec. 10.10.10 is the only place the 2023 ordinance names this district at all, and it does so to state the equivalent district applied on a Route 28 Tax District Zoning Conversion.
"Conditional" means the use generally requires a public hearing or special-exception approval — a very different timeline and risk profile from a by-right permit.
This is the zone. What about the parcel?
Zone rules are the starting point — the answer for a specific property also depends on lot
size, overlays, existing improvements and site conditions. Run a free address lookup to see
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