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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

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All Chesterfield 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.)

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies in A districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.

Uses

Permitted by right1

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size is five acres. This includes abutting parcels that are owned or leased by the licensed operator.
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