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Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 5.1.03

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETFront 100 ftRear 100 ftSide 100 ftMIN LOT AREA5 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.
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.)

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft

Extracted standards

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

Noise

  • Noise

    The commercial stable shall comply with the requirements of section 4.18 regarding noise.

Other

From the ordinance

The commercial stable shall be located on a lot of not less than 5 acres. The commercial stable shall be located not less than 100 feet from any lot line.
Sec. 5.1.03