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Chesapeake, Virginia · General provision

§ 6-501, § 6-502

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 50 ftMIN LOT AREA35,000 sq ftMIN FRONTAGE50 ftMAX HEIGHT35 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.
35,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.8 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
50 ft
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
50 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
35 ft

From the ordinance

This district is intended to allow some lots within a development to be less than 40,000 square feet in size, with a minimum lot size of 35,000 square feet, provided that the average lot size in the development is at least 40,000 square feet.
§ 6-501, § 6-502