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O, Office: This Long-Range Land Use classification provides for low- to high-rise, suburban-scale offices or research and development activities.

O(F), Office/Flex: This zoning district is designed to provide areas for research and development centers, office, institutional, and minimal impact industrial uses.

O(H), Office High-Rise: This zoning district is designed to provide areas for high-rise offices and institutional uses.

O(L), Low-Rise Office: This zoning district is designed to provide areas for offices with a minimum 10,000 square foot lots.

O(M), Mid-Rise Office: This zoning district is designed to provide areas for mid-rise offices and institutional uses.

P

PBD, Planned Business District: This zoning designation allows a planned nonresidential development with a mix of commercial, research and development, office complexes, and certain types of manufacturing and related land uses within a minimum district size of 15 contiguous acres.

PC, Planning Commission: an eight citizen panel appointed by the Board of County Supervisors to advise the Board on land use issues in the County.

PL, Public Land: This Long-Range Land Use classification identifies public land within the County in order to provide an indication of existing and planned public facilities, institutions, or other government installations.

PMD, Planned Mixed District: This zoning district allows a mix of nonresidential and residential within a minimum district size of 25 contiguous acres.

PMR, Planned Mixed Residential: This zoning district is designed to permit and encourage the establishment of communities of varied housing types in planned developments.

P&OS, Parks and Open Space: This Long-Range Land Use classification illustrates a number of existing parks and recreational areas of the County.

R

R-2, Suburban Residential: This zoning district allows two detached single-family dwellings per acre.

R-4, Suburban Residential: This zoning district allows four detached single-family dwellings per acre.

R-6, Suburban Residential: This zoning district allows a maximum of six single-family attached or detached dwellings per acre.

R-16, Suburban Residential (Multi-family): This zoning district allows a maximum of 16 dwellings per acre with a minimum of six units per acre.

R-30, Suburban Residential (Multi-family Mixture): This zoning district allows a maximum of 30 dwellings per acre.

RCC, Regional Commercial Center: This Long-Range Land Use classification is intended to provide for large-scale retail projects that serve a regional market. As much as 25% of a project area may consist of local-serving retail or residential at a density of 16-30 units per acre.

REC, Regional Employment Center: This Long-Range Land Use classification is for sites close to or with good access from major interstate highways. It allows 75% employment use and 25% retail and/or residential with 16-30 dwellings per acre.

ROD, Redevelopment Overlay District: Zoning overlay intended to promote and perpetuate the continued economic viability of older commercial neighborhoods which are experiencing economic decline.

RMA, Resource Management Area: Land area that protects and buffers the sensitive features of the RPA (Resource Protection Area). The RMA is located landward and contiguous to the RPA. Land areas designated RMA include those areas, such as floodplains, highly erodible soils, steep slopes, highly permeable soils, and non-tidal wetlands.

RPA, Resource Protection Area: Land area at or near the shoreline that contains sensitive features that play an important role in protecting water quality from nonpoint source pollution through the ecological and biological processes they perform. These areas are also sensitive to any impacts and can be easily damaged, resulting in degraded water quality. Under the Chesapeake Bay Protection Act, the following land areas must be designated as Resource Protection Area:

• Tidal wetlands;

• Non-tidal wetlands connected by surface flow to tidal wetlands or perennial tributary streams;

• Tidal shores;

• A 100 foot wide buffer area located adjacent to and landward of perennial tributary streams and the other above RPA

RPC, Residential Planned Community: This designation is both a zoning and long-range land use designation intended for planned developments not less than 500 contiguous acres under one ownership or control in those areas of the County where provisions for sanitary sewers, sewage disposal facilities, adequate highway access, and public water supply are assured. Within such planned communities, the location of all residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental uses, school sites, parks, playgrounds, recreational areas, commuter parking areas, and other open spaces shall be controlled in such a manner as to permit a variety of housing accommodations and land uses in an orderly relationship to one another.

RU, Urban Residential: Zoning district intended to implement the urban residential and mass transit nodes land use classifications of the Comprehensive Plan, to allow multifamily residential development at not less than 31 units per acre.

Rural Area: That portion of Prince William County which contains agricultural, open space, forestry and large-lot residential land uses, as well as occasional small-scale convenience retail centers and community facilities. It is intended that the Rural Area may be served by public water facilities but not by public sewer facilities, except under emergency conditions as identified in the Sewer Plan. This is also referred to as the "Rural Crescent."

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Sector Plan: A Comprehensive Plan for a small geographic area.

SR-5, Semi-Rural Residential: This zoning district allows one detached single-family dwelling per five acres.

SR-1, Semi-Rural Residential: This zoning district allows one detached single-family dwelling per one acre.

SR-3, Semi-Rural Residential: This zoning district allows one detached single-family dwelling per three acres.

SRH, Suburban Residential High: This Long-Range Land Use classification provides for multifamily residential development (apartments and condominiums), allowing 10 - 16 dwelling units per acre.

SRL, Suburban Residential Low: This Long-Range Land Use classification allows one to four single-family detached dwellings per acre. Single-family detached is preferred with single-family attached limited to 25% of total land area.

SRM, Suburban Residential Medium: This Long-Range Land Use classification allows four to six dwellings per acre. Single-family detached is preferred with single-family attached limited to 25% of total land area.

SRR, Semi-Rural Residential: This Long-Range Land Use classification allows one dwelling per 2.5 acres.

T

TCM: Transportation Congestion Management

UMU, Urban Mixed-Use: A Potomac Communities Plan long-range land use classification providing for a coordinated project or integrated group of projects, consisting of at least three components – residential, office or regional employment, and recreation – combined to take full advantage properties with excellent transportation access.

URL, Urban Residential Low: A Potomac Communities Plan long-range land use classification providing for attached or detached residential development at a density up to eight dwellings per acre, and attendant community facilities such as schools, churches, and public safety stations.

URM, Urban Residential Medium: A Potomac Communities Plan long-range land use classification providing for attached residential development at a density up to 20 dwellings per acre, and attendant community facilities such as schools, churches, and public safety stations.

URH, Urban Residential High: A Potomac Communities Plan long-range land use classification providing for attached residential development at a density of 20 to 30 dwellings per acre, and attendant community facilities such as schools, churches, and public safety stations.

V

V, Village District: A zoning district that implements the VMU, Village Mixed-Use land use classification of the Potomac Communities Plan.

VDOT: Virginia Department of Transportation

VMRC: Virginia Marine Resource Commission

VMU, Village Mixed-Use: A Potomac Communities long-range land use classification that provides for mixed-use development where residential and neighborhood commercial uses are intermingled on small lots laid out in a traditional street grid.

VRE: Virginia Railway Express