ADU Pass
Quinque
ADU Pass helps homeowners in Quinque, No County, Virginia navigate the permit paperwork for building an accessory dwelling unit. This area covers 1 ZIP code.
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ADU details
ADU legality: allowed-with-restrictions
Quinque is governed by Greene County. ADUs are permitted in A-1 and RR districts with standards; detached units on smaller residential parcels may require SUP. Proximity to Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive entrance (Swift Run Gap, ~9 miles west) drives some seasonal STR demand. SB531 (July 2027) preempts SUP requirements on SFR lots.
Cost scenarios
| Scenario | Sq ft | Permit | Build | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| minimum | 300 | $1,000 | $75,000 | $76,000 |
| 600 | 600 | $1,200 | $162,000 | $163,200 |
| midpoint | 625 | $1,200 | $168,750 | $169,950 |
| maximum | 900 | $1,400 | $252,000 | $253,400 |
Fee breakdown (as of 2026-05)
Permitting process
Viability (permitted uses)
- Long-term rental: yes Long-term rental permitted on accessory-dwelling parcels. Thin year-round market — Greene's population is modest but Charlottesville commute corridor (25 miles south) sustains demand.
- Short-term rental: with-restrictions Greene County registers STRs; Quinque's proximity to Shenandoah National Park (Swift Run Gap entrance ~9 miles west) and the Blue Ridge Mountains drives meaningful seasonal STR demand. Charlottesville UVA games and graduation also lift weekend bookings.
- Office rental: no Accessory dwelling must remain a dwelling unit.
- Home office: yes Home occupation permitted under Greene standards.
- Studio / workshop: yes Personal studio / workshop use permitted.
- Agriculture: yes Agricultural use permitted on A-1 parcels; many Quinque-area parcels include working farms, orchards, or vineyards.
- Relative support: yes Family-occupancy accessory dwelling permitted; common rural Virginia in-law-suite pattern.
Incentives
Contacts
Utilities
- Water: Private well (essentially universal in Quinque) · 50d connect · $7,500
- Sewer: Private septic (essentially universal in Quinque) · 65d connect · $14,000
- Electric: Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) — most of Greene County; some Dominion service · 30d connect · $2,200
- Gas: Propane (no natural-gas distribution in Greene County) · 14d connect · $1,400
Property values & taxes
Construction timeline
Realistic total: best 7mo · typical 11mo · worst 16mo
Modular pathway inspectors are occasional with modular
VA-33 Spotswood Trail and US-29 handle modular delivery; rural Greene roads generally accommodate standard module widths.
Financing
Insurance impact
HOA prevalence & preemption
HOAs are rare in unincorporated Quinque; a handful of small subdivisions have HOAs. Most parcels are individually owned with no covenants.
Regulatory overlays (1)
- wui-fire-zone
Quinque sits within the Wildland-Urban Interface adjoining Shenandoah National Park; Virginia Department of Forestry WUI guidance applies to new construction near Park boundary.
Technical envelope (climate & building code)
Climate & energy code
Building code
Amendments:
- Amendment
Contractor market (aggregate)
Legal history (timeline)
Current ordinance: Greene County Zoning Ordinance — Accessory Dwelling provisions
- 2008-01-01 — Greene County Zoning Ordinance — current ADU framework (county-ordinance)
Greene County's current zoning ordinance permits accessory dwellings in agricultural and rural-residential districts under use-specific standards. Exact adoption date not surfaced in public records.
Effect: Operating ADU rule for Quinque and the rest of unincorporated Greene County. - 2026-04-14 — Virginia SB531 signed — statewide by-right ADU mandate (state-law)
Effective July 1, 2027: by-right ADU on SFR lots; $500 fee cap.
Effect: Will simplify detached-ADU permitting in Greene County starting July 1, 2027.
Known issues (1)
- other — Well and septic capacity are the binding constraints on most Quinque parcels; alternative on-site systems may be required where soils are tight or water table is high.
County: no attribution (synthetic bucket)
No county
This city sits in the state's "no county" bucket — its ADU rules derive directly from state law and city ordinance without a county intermediary. No county-level sections apply.
Virginia state — ADU law and programs
State ADU law
Virginia has NOT enacted a statewide ADU preemption law. Virginia is a Dillon Rule state — localities possess only those powers expressly granted by the General Assembly — and the statutes granting zoning authority (Va. Code § 15.2-2280 et seq.) leave ADU regulation to local ordinances. ADU permission, setbacks, parking, size, and owner-occupancy rules therefore vary by county, independent city, and town. Virginia is unique in that it has 38 independent cities that function as counties (neither in nor subordinate to the surrounding county), meaning 'the county' for any given Virginia property may be an independent city rather than a true county. Several ADU preemption bills have been introduced in recent General Assembly sessions (2022 through 2025) without enactment; none have advanced past committee as of the Assembly's 2026 regular session adjournment.
State financing programs
Virginia does not operate an ADU-specific statewide loan, grant, or forgivable-loan program. Virginia Housing (formerly the Virginia Housing Development Authority, VHDA — rebranded 2020) administers general first-time-homebuyer, down-payment-assistance (DPA), mortgage-credit-certificate, and rehabilitation products that can be applied to ADU-adjacent purchases or improvements when eligibility criteria are met, but none target ADU construction as a distinct product. The Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) administers federal HOME and CDBG pass-through funds that local jurisdictions can direct toward ADU-adjacent rehab, but there is no state-level ADU-dedicated line item. Federally available products (FHA 203(k), Fannie Mae HomeReady and HomeStyle Renovation, Freddie Mac CHOICERenovation) remain the primary ADU financing path for Virginia homeowners.
State housing programs
Virginia does not run a state-level pre-approved-ADU-plan catalog, statewide impact-fee-waiver statute for ADUs, or streamlined-review mandate. State-level programs that touch ADU-adjacent policy are coordinated primarily through the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and Virginia Housing, and act by funding or assisting local jurisdictions rather than by preemption. Local ADU activity — Arlington County's Accessory Dwellings program (detached ADUs permitted since 2008, liberalized 2020), Alexandria's accessory-dwelling ordinance, Fairfax County's accessory-living-unit program, and Charlottesville's 2021 zoning-code changes — is authorized under the localities' Va. Code § 15.2-2280 zoning authority, not by state mandate.
- DHCD Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program — Federal CDBG funds administered by DHCD to eligible non-entitlement Virginia localities for community-revitalization, housing-rehab, and infrastructure projects. Not ADU-specific. Participating localities can direct CDBG funds toward housing-rehab projects where local policy supports ADUs.
- DHCD HOME Investment Partnerships Program — Federal HOME funds administered by DHCD to Virginia participating jurisdictions and non-profits for affordable-housing acquisition, rehab, and new construction. Not ADU-specific; can be directed to ADU-adjacent rehab at local discretion.
- Virginia Housing Commission — Permanent advisory commission of the General Assembly that studies housing-policy questions and recommends legislation. Has periodically studied ADU preemption and missing-middle housing without recommending statewide enactment as of 2026-04-21.
- Local ADU ordinances under Va. Code § 15.2-2280 authority — Not a state program — listed here because Virginia ADU policy is executed entirely at the locality level under the § 15.2-2280 zoning grant. A homeowner seeking to build an ADU consults the zoning ordinance of the specific county, city, or town where the parcel is located.
Federal (United States) — ADU-relevant rules and programs
Federal ADU law
The United States has no federal statute that directly regulates accessory dwelling unit entitlement or design. Land-use authority over ADUs resides with states and local governments under the traditional police power. Federal engagement is limited to financing (Fannie/Freddie/FHA/VA/USDA), flood insurance (FEMA/NFIP), and discretionary housing programs (HUD), which are recorded in sibling sections of this file.
Federal financing programs
Federal housing-finance agencies and GSEs set nationwide underwriting rules that govern whether an ADU can be financed, appraised, and counted toward mortgage qualifying income. The relevant actors are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA (HUD), VA, and USDA Rural Development.
Federal tax credits
There is no ADU-specific federal tax credit. ADUs may incidentally qualify for existing federal energy-efficiency and clean-energy tax credits when the ADU construction includes qualifying measures.
Federal housing programs
HUD administers several discretionary programs that can fund ADU-related activity at the grantee's election, but none is an ADU-specific program.
ZIP Code
- 22965
Post Office
- 12817 Spotswood Trl, 22965