Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 36.416
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
An accessory dwelling unit shall not be subdivided or otherwise segregated in ownership from the principal single-family dwelling unit.
- Maximum ADUAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. floor area800 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The floor area of an accessory dwelling unit contained within a separate structure shall be no more than 800 square feet in finished floor area.
From the ordinance
An accessory dwelling unit is allowed only as accessory to a single-family detached dwelling.