Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

909.03, 909.04, 909.05, 909.06, 909.07

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaRear 30 ftMIN LOT AREA10 acMAX HEIGHT60 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.

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The parcel of land in which a shopping center is located shall not be less than ten (10) acres. ... There shall be a side yard, rear yard, alley, service court or combination thereof of not less than thirty (30) feet in depth. ... No building or structure shall exceed sixty (60) feet in height ... All buildings, parking lots and other forms of construction shall have a minimum setback of one hundred fifty (150) feet from the right-of-way of arterial highways ... All buildings will have a setback of twenty-five (25) feet from other street right-of-way lines, or property lines, unless adjacent to a residential district, then the setback shall be seventy-five (75) feet. ... permanently screened from adjoining residential districts by a wall, fence, evergreen hedge and/or other suitable enclosure of a minimum height of seven (7) feet ... A landscaped area at least ten (10) feet in depth
909.03, 909.04, 909.05, 909.06, 909.07