Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
19.2-8
Single FamilyAll Chesterfield County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Building location may be impacted by floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. or watershed regulations
Building location may be impacted by the floodplain or the Chesapeake Bay or Upper Swift Creek Watershed regulations.
Other
- Family subdivision minimum road frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.15 ft
minimum road frontage of 15 feet
- Family subdivision minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Lots created through the family subdivision process identified in Sec. 17-42 shall have a minimum size of one acre and a minimum road frontage of 15 feet
Setback
- Minimum setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increased for required width at front building line
Minimum setbacks shall be increased, where necessary, to obtain the required width at the front building line.
From the ordinance
The A District provides land areas for large lot single-family dwellings... base pattern provides for rural residential development on five acre or larger parcels.