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Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Article XIII, Sec. 1301.04

All Amherst County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 25 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 frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
25 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum percentage of flag lots in subdivision15 pct

    no more than fifteen (15) percent of the total number of lots within a subdivision shall be flag lots

  • Maximum percentage of flag lots with commission approval20 pct

    the total percentage of flag lots cannot exceed twenty (20) percent

  • Minimum flag lot frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.25 ft

    Must have twenty-five (25) feet of frontage at the front lot line on a public or private street

  • Minimum planting screen easement width10 ft

    A planting screen easement of at least ten (10) feet

From the ordinance

Must have twenty-five (25) feet of frontage at the front lot line on a public or private street ... no more than fifteen (15) percent of the total number of lots within a subdivision shall be flag lots ... A planting screen easement of at least ten (10) feet
Article XIII, Sec. 1301.04