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Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 11.4

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA21 acMAX HEIGHT45 ftMAX DENSITY0.05 du/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.
914,760 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (21 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Density

Maximum density
0.05 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
914,760 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (21 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
45 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Minimum yards

    The minimum yards established in the standards for development required by section 8.5.1(d)(11) of this chapter shall not be less than the minimum yards provided in section 21.7.

From the ordinance

Density shall not exceed one dwelling unit per 21 acres and the minimum lot size shall be 21 acres. The maximum structure height ... shall not exceed 45 feet.
Sec. 11.4