Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 4.11.1
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
2 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. structure side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. in non-infill residential5 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 or, in the case of an alley or a shared driveway, no closer than three feet to the edge of the easement or right-of-way.
- Projection 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; provided that no such feature shall be located 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 any lot line.