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Accomack County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 106-232

All Accomack County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA6 ac
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.
261,360 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (6 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right1

Extracted standards

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

Density

Other

  • Minimum separation distance between poultry operations400 ft

    The minimum separation distance between poultry operations shall be 400 feet.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size for confined poultry operations shall be six acres. The overall density per parcel of poultry houses is one house per five acres of land.
Sec. 106-232