Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 4.11.1 and 4.11.2
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Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in front yards
Accessory structures, including detached garages, are prohibited within the minimum front yard required by the applicable district regulations except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear lot lines5 ft
Accessory structures are permitted in side and rear yards, provided that they are erected no closer than five feet from any side lot line in a non-infill development within the R-1, R-2, R-4, R-6, R-10, R-15, PRD, or PUD districts, and no closer than six feet to the side or rear property lines
- Maximum projection of architectural features into required yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.4 ft
Covered porches, balconies, chimneys, eaves and like architectural features may project not more than four feet into any required yard
From the ordinance
Covered porches, balconies, chimneys, eaves and like architectural features may project not more than four feet into any required yard; ... Accessory structures are authorized in required yards as follows: ...