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Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 25-440

SlaughterhouseAll Botetourt County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 ac
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.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Direct access to state-maintained road

    Such uses shall have direct access to a state-maintained road, adequate in capacity to serve the traffic generated by size and type of the facility.

  • Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from lot line for structures200 ft

    No structure, nor enclosure for the keeping of animals shall be located closer than two hundred (200) feet to any lot line.

  • Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from lot line for slaughtering structures400 ft

    No enclosed structure used for the slaughtering of animals shall be located closer than four hundred (400) feet to any lot line.

  • Off-site waste disposal required

    Adequate provision, to the satisfaction of the board, shall be made for the off-site disposal of animal waste, including manure, litter, and carcasses or portions thereof.

  • Permit term5 years

    The permit shall be granted for a period not to exceed five (5) years, upon which time it shall be reviewed by the board.

  • ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. hours of operation

    Hours of operation shall not extend into the period between 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.

  • Screening required

    Screening of the site shall be sufficient to ensure a minimal visual impact on adjacent uses, and the board shall impose conditions sufficient to provide such assurance.

From the ordinance

No structure, nor enclosure for the keeping of animals shall be located closer than two hundred (200) feet to any lot line. No enclosed structure used for the slaughtering of animals shall be located closer than four hundred (400) feet to any lot line.
Sec. 25-440