Culpeper County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Article 19 - Substandard Subdivisions

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaRear 25 ftSide 10 ftMin width 85 ftMIN LOT AREA8,500 sq ft
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.

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • The average area of the lots in such a resubdivision shall be not less than the average area of the lots in the subdivision heretofore lawfully dedicated and recorded, plus one-half (½) the difference between that average and the average area required for a lot in the zoning district in which the subdivision lies.

  • Corner lot minimum width and depth90 ft

    nor shall any corner lot have either a width or a depth of less than ninety (90) feet.

  • Maximum number of lots

    the total number of lots permitted in the resubdivision of the substandard subdivision shall not exceed the total number of lots in the original subdivision being resubdivided, plus the total number of lots which the existing restrictions applicable to the zoning district in which the land lies would permit in such undivided parcels

Setback

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area in such subdivision shall be not less than ten percent (10%) smaller than the above-described average lot area, except that no lot shall in any case contain an area of less than eight thousand five hundred (8,500) square feet...
Article 19 - Substandard Subdivisions