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Accomack County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 106-233

All Accomack County Unincorporated 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

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

Environmental

  • Nutrient management plan

    A nutrient management plan, including litter, waste disposal sites and methods shall be approved by the soil and water conservation district.

Other

  • Expansion setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

    Any proposed expansion to an existing swine operation shall be permitted by right and subject to a 200 foot setback from any property line, except that this may be reduced to as little as 50 feet with the written consent of the adjacent property owner and a vegetated buffer of trees which provides a solid visual screen from adjacent properties.

  • Permitted districts

    Permitted by special use permit in residential districts.

  • Vegetated buffer

    Vegetated buffers as required above shall be planted to grow a minimum of eight feet in height and provide a solid year-round visual screen within two years from the date the operation commences or is expanded. Such buffers shall consist of either indigenous or ornamental shrubs and/or trees such as broad-leaf hollies, red cedars, leland cyprus, loblolly pines, or others as recommended by the county extension service or certified nurseryman.

From the ordinance

The minimum acreage or parcel size for confined commercial swine operations shall be five acres.
Sec. 106-233