Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Article XIII, Sections 1301-1302

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 25 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.

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to all subdivisions in Amherst County, with specific water/sewer extension requirements within 1000 feet of public systems in designated growth areas.

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum block length2,000 ft

    Blocks shall not be greater than two thousand (2,000) feet

  • Maximum percentage of flag lots15 pct

    no more than fifteen (15) percent of the total number of lots within a subdivision shall be flag lots

  • The loading rate exceeds one thousand two hundred (1,200) gallons per day for any acre

  • Maximum number of lots on a private street5 lots

    Each such street or road may provide access to a maximum of five (5) lots

  • Maximum percolation piping for mass drainfield definition2,000 ft

    The disposal system contains more than two thousand (2,000) linear feet of percolation piping

  • Minimum access easement width for sewage conveyance15 ft

    by way of an easement at least fifteen (15) feet in width

  • Minimum alley right-of-way width20 ft

    No alley right-of-way shall be less than twenty (20) feet in width

  • Minimum block length200 ft

    nor less than two hundred (200) feet in length

  • Minimum centerline offset between intersections125 ft

    Street intersections with centerline offsets of less than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet shall not be permitted

  • Minimum cul-de-sac length200 ft

    Cul-de-sacs, or dead-end streets, shall be not less than two hundred (200) feet in length

  • Must have twenty-five (25) feet of frontage at the front lot line

  • Minimum street intersection angle60 deg

    no street intersection being at any angle of less than sixty (60) degrees

  • all of which shall be ten (10) acres or greater in size

  • Minimum manhole access diameter30 in

    shall not be less than thirty (30) inches in diameter

  • Minimum planting screen easement width10 ft

    A planting screen easement of at least ten (10) feet

  • Minimum street right-of-way width50 ft

    no case shall the right-of-way of any subdivision street be less than fifty (50) feet in width

  • Minimum stormwater drainage easement width8 ft

    a stormwater drainage easement of adequate width, but not less than eight (8) feet

  • Minimum cul-de-sac turnaround radius60 ft

    provided at the closed end with a turnaround of at least sixty (60) feet in radius

  • Minimum utility easement width20 ft

    Easements having a minimum width of twenty (20) feet

  • No planting within distance of mass drainfield easement20 ft

    No shrubbery or trees may be planted on, or within twenty (20) feet of the mass drainfield or reserve drainfield easement

  • Septic tank pumping frequency5 years

    Pumping all septic tanks a minimum of once every five (5) years

  • Distance to public sewer for required extension1,000 ft

    within one thousand (1,000) linear feet of existing, centralized public sewerage facilities

  • Distance to public water for required extension1,000 ft

    within one thousand (1,000) linear feet of an existing, centralized public water system

From the ordinance

The following general design requirements shall apply to all subdivisions... Water and sewage facilities shall be provided in all subdivisions.
Article XIII, Sections 1301-1302