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Albemarle County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4.2.2

All Albemarle County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA30,000 sq ft
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.
30,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.69 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Drainfield requirement

    Adequate area for two subsurface drainfields approved by Virginia Department of Health if served by conventional onsite sewage system.

  • Maximum dimension ratio5 ratio

    No one dimension exceeds any other by a ratio of more than five to one.

From the ordinance

Building sites for uses not served by a public or central sewage system: Each building site for a dwelling unit shall have an area of 30,000 square feet or greater and shall be of such dimensions that no one dimension exceeds any other by a ratio of more than five to one.
Sec. 4.2.2