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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-8.3 / Sec. 17-42

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 15 ftMIN LOT AREA1 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.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
15 ft

From the ordinance

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.
Sec. 19.2-8.3 / Sec. 17-42