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Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 5.1.28

All Albemarle County Unincorporated districts0

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

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

Lighting

  • Outdoor lighting

    The fill activity shall comply with the requirements of section 4.17 regarding outdoor lighting.

Noise

  • Noise

    The fill activity shall comply with the requirements of section 4.18 regarding noise.

Other

From the ordinance

The fill activity shall be located on a lot of not less than 5 acres. The fill activity shall be located not less than 100 feet from any lot line.
Sec. 5.1.28