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Bedford, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 804

All Bedford districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 120 ftMIN LOT AREA12,000 sq 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.
12,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.28 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.
120 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum curb breaks2 count

    Curb breaks shall be limited to two.

  • Distance from residential100 ft

    The building and service area ... shall not be within 100 feet of any residential lot, or any property containing a school, public playground, church, hospital, public library, or institution for children or dependents.

  • Main building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.40 ft

    The main buildings ... shall have a minimum setback of 40 feet from the right-of-way line of any street with a right-of-way of 50 feet or wider, or 65 feet from the centerline of any street with a right-of-way of less than 50 feet.

  • Pump island setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.15 ft

    All gasoline pump islands shall be set back at least 15 feet from the right-of-way line where the right-of-way is 50 feet or wider, or 40 feet from the street centerline where the right-of-way is less than 50 feet.

From the ordinance

An automobile service station shall have a minimum frontage on any road of 120 feet and a minimum area of 12,000 square feet.
Sec. 804