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Abingdon, Virginia · General provision

Section 7-2-35

All Abingdon districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Riding surface dust control

    Riding surfaces shall be covered and maintained with a substance to minimize dust and erosion.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from highways and rights-of-way100 ft

    Any buildings for the keeping of animals shall be located at least 100 feet from any highway or other right-of-way for passage.

  • Fencing maintenance

    Fencing and other means of animal confinement shall be maintained at all times.

  • Sanitation

    Pens, stalls, and grazing areas shall be maintained in a sanitary manner.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from other lot lines100 ft

    Any buildings, barns, pens, and areas for the keeping of animals or animal waste storage shall be located at least 100 feet from any adjacent lot line not within a residential district.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districts and dwellings200 ft

    Any buildings, barns, pens, and areas for the keeping of animals or animal waste storage shall be located at least 200 feet from any residential district lot line and any existing dwelling unit not located on the same parcel.

From the ordinance

The lot shall be a minimum of five acres.
Section 7-2-35