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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-8

AgriculturalAll Chesterfield County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 acMAX DENSITY0.2 du/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.)

Density

Maximum density
0.2 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.

Uses

Permitted by right3

From the ordinance

The A District should be used to implement the areas shown in the Comprehensive Plan as Rural Residential/Agricultural (maximum 0.2 dwelling units per acre) or Residential Agricultural (maximum 0.5 dwelling units per acre).
Sec. 19.2-8