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Amelia County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

§ 325-17.2, § 325-17.3, § 325-17.4, § 325-17.5, § 325-17.6

Mobile HomeAll Amelia County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 250 ftMIN LOT AREA3 acMAX HEIGHT16 ft
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.
130,680 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (3 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
250 ft

Height & bulk

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

Uses

Permitted by right13

Conditional / special use1

Accessory3

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Minimum greenbelt width20 ft

    A mobile home subdivision shall have a greenbelt planting strip not less than 20 feet in width along all subdivision boundaries.

From the ordinance

Area: three acres; 15 acres to create district. Frontage: 250 feet. Building height: Sixteen feet maximum.
§ 325-17.2, § 325-17.3, § 325-17.4, § 325-17.5, § 325-17.6