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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 19.2-10

Single FamilyAll Chesterfield County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA21,780 sq ftMAX DENSITY0.5 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.
21,780 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Density

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

Uses

Permitted by right1

From the ordinance

The SR District should be used to implement the areas shown in the Comprehensive Plan as Residential Agricultural (maximum 0.5 dwelling units per acre) and Residential Neighborhood 1 (maximum of 1.0 dwelling unit per acre)
Sec. 19.2-10