Emporia, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 90-601 to 90-608

Extracted standards

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

Frontage

  • All lots must front on street

    Unless otherwise stated, all lots or parcels of land shall front on an existing or proposed street or right-of-way in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance.

Other

  • Block width for two tiers of lots

    Blocks shall be wide enough to allow two tiers of lots of minimum depth, except where prevented by topographical conditions or size of the property, in which case the agent may approve a single tier of lots of minimum depth.

  • Maximum block length1,000 ft

    No block in a subdivision shall exceed 1,000 feet in length except where permitted by the agent and all other provisions of this section have been met.

  • Prohibition on peculiarly shaped lots

    Lots shall not contain peculiarly shaped elongations which would be substantially unusable for normal purposes solely to satisfy necessary square footage or frontage requirements; to provide for drainage fields or septic areas; or to provide access to any lot that would otherwise not have road frontage.

  • Street interconnection requirement

    The design of a subdivision shall be made to interconnect streets within the subdivision to promote grid pattern development, avoid dead end streets unless provided in accordance with section 90-609, streets, of this ordinance, and to arrange streets to provide access to adjoining parcels to promote orderly development of the city.

From the ordinance

No block in a subdivision shall exceed 1,000 feet in length except where permitted by the agent and all other provisions of this section have been met.
Sec. 90-601 to 90-608