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Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 25-440

All Botetourt County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN 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.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Direct access to state-maintained road

    Such uses shall have direct access to a state-maintained road, adequate in capacity to serve the traffic generated by size and type of the facility.

  • Maximum permit term5 years

    The permit shall be granted for a period not to exceed five (5) years

  • Off-site disposal of animal waste

    Adequate provision, to the satisfaction of the board, shall be made for the off-site disposal of animal waste, including manure, litter, and carcasses or portions thereof.

  • ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. hours of operation

    Hours of operation shall not extend into the period between 8:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.

  • Screening to minimize visual impact

    Screening of the site shall be sufficient to ensure a minimal visual impact on adjacent uses

Setback

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size for slaughter operations shall be five (5) acres.
Sec. 25-440