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Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 5.1.64

All Albemarle County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETFront 50 ftRear 50 ftSide 50 ftMIN LOT AREA2 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.
87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 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.
50 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft

Servicing

Geographic extent
Rural areas

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

  • Outdoor lighting

    The religious assembly use shall comply with the requirements of section 4.17 regarding outdoor lighting.

Noise

  • Noise

    The religious assembly use shall comply with the requirements of section 4.18 regarding noise.

Parking

  • Parking requirements

    The religious assembly use shall comply with the parking requirements of section 4.12.

From the ordinance

The religious assembly use shall be located on a lot of not less than 2 acres. The religious assembly use shall be located not less than 50 feet from any lot line.
Sec. 5.1.64