Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-12

Single FamilyAll Chesterfield County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

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 area: 4,500 sq ft

Setbacks

Front: 15 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum lot coverage: 50%

Extracted standards

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

Frontage

Cul-de-sac lot frontage requirement
A cul-de-sac lot shall have 60% of the required minimum frontage on the radius of the cul-de-sac and 100% of the required frontage at the required front setback line.

Other

Concrete curb and gutter required
All roads shall have concrete curb and gutter.
Reduced front setback (when alley and rear parking)15 ft
Front setbacks may be reduced to 15'.
Maximum building coverage (when alley and rear parking)50 pct
Building coverage may be increased to 50% in Base, 60% in Option 1, and 70% in Option 2.

From the ordinance

The base pattern provides for single-family uses on 7,500 square foot lots ... Option 2 provides for 4,500 square foot lots. All requiring connection to public water and wastewater systems.
Sec. 19.2-12