Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

902.02-902.06

All Amherst 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.

Servicing

Applies within: 100 ft
Geographic extent: Not within 100 feet of residential lots or certain institutions

Uses

Conditional / special use1

automobile service station

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

Exterior lighting deflected away from adjacent properties
Exterior lighting shall be arranged so that it is deflected away from adjacent properties.

Other

Canopy setback from right-of-way25 ft
All canopies shall be set back twenty-five (25) feet from all road or street right-of-way lines.
Pump island setback from right-of-way25 ft
All gasoline pump islands shall be set back at least twenty-five (25) feet from the road or street right-of-way line. Where pump islands are constructed perpendicular to the right-of-way line, the pump island shall be set back at least thirty (30) feet from the road of street right-of-way line.

From the ordinance

The building and service area shall not be within one hundred (100) feet of any residential lot or any property containing a school, public playground, church, hospital, public library or institution for children or dependents. An automobile service station shall have a minimum frontage of one hundred twenty (120) feet and a minimum area of twelve thousand (12,000) square feet. All buildings shall be set back forty (40) feet from the right-of-way line... A minimum of four (4) off-street parking spaces are required with an additional off-street parking space for each automobile service bay.
902.02-902.06

Parking requirements

{
  "base": "4 spaces",
  "per_bay": "1 space"
}