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Dinwiddie County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 22-234.1 through 22-234.14

All Dinwiddie County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 acMAX HEIGHT60 ftMIN OPEN SPACE20%
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.)

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
60 ft
Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
20%

Uses

Permitted by right6

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Development shall not exceed capacity of adjacent roads and sewer/water systems

    Planned unit development districts shall be so located and developed that they will not exceed the capacity of the adjacent roads which will serve the property or the capacity of public sewer and water systems in the event connections to them are proposed.

  • Minimum 20% of gross area in open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.20 pct

    A minimum of 20 percent of the gross area of any planned unit development district shall be retained in open space.

From the ordinance

Statement of intent, designation, documents, procedures, minimum area, open space, height and spacing for PUD district.
Sec. 22-234.1 through 22-234.14