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Chesapeake, Virginia · General provision

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Single FamilyAll Chesapeake districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40,000 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.
40,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.92 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Housing

Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
by_right

Servicing

Geographic extent
Rural overlay districtOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it.

Uses

Permitted by right1

From the ordinance

This district is intended for single-family residential development with a minimum lot size of 40,000 square feet in the rural overlay district.
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