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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-8

AgriculturalAll Chesterfield County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 acMAX DENSITY0.5 du/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.)

Density

Maximum density
0.5 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.

Housing

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

Uses

Permitted by right4

Extracted standards

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

Density

Lot

From the ordinance

The Agricultural (A) District provides land areas for large lot single-family dwellings as well as forest and farmland including agricultural and silvicultural operations... The A District should be used to implement the areas shown in the Comprehensive Plan as Rural Residential/Agricultural (maximum 0.2 dwelling units per acre) or Residential Agricultural (maximum 0.5 dwelling units per acre).
Sec. 19.2-8