Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-30-23

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 100 ftMIN LOT AREA3 acMAX HEIGHT55 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.

Extracted standards

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

Design

  • Garage orientation

    Garages shall be rear loaded and shall be accessed via private pavement. Garage doors shall not face any road or parking serving commercial use on property that is open to the public.

Frontage

Height

Other

Parking

  • No parking between building and Route 1

    Parking shall not be permitted between the building and Route 1.

From the ordinance

Project has a minimum of 100 feet of contiguous frontage along Route 1. Project size is no less than three acres and no more than 10 acres; projects of a minimum of 1.5 acres shall be permitted if located at the intersection of a local road with Route 1. Unless designed to architecturally front Route 1, units shall have a minimum 50 foot setback from Route 1 with Perimeter Landscaping A, if designed to architecturally front Route 1 the setback may be reduced to 25 feet. Buildings may be up to 55 feet, whichever is less, provided that if within 100 feet of SR, SC, SU, or AR district the height shall not exceed 45 feet.
Sec. 19.2-30-23