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Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 5.1.12

All Albemarle County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 25 ftRear 25 ftSide 25 ftMIN LOT AREA1 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.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 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.
25 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

  • Outdoor lighting

    The public utility structure or use shall comply with the requirements of section 4.17 regarding outdoor lighting.

Noise

  • Noise

    The public utility structure or use shall comply with the requirements of section 4.18 regarding noise.

Other

  • DEQ and SCC requirements

    The public utility structure or use shall comply with the requirements of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and the Virginia State Corporation Commission, as applicable.

From the ordinance

The public utility structure or use shall be located on a lot of not less than 1 acre, except as otherwise provided in this ordinance. The public utility structure or use shall be located not less than 25 feet from any lot line.
Sec. 5.1.12