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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-10

Single FamilyAll Chesterfield County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA2 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.
87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 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.

From the ordinance

The base pattern provides for large lot residences on two-acre (87,120 sf.) lots.
Sec. 19.2-10