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Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

19.2-9

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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.

From the ordinance

The Rural Community (RC) District provides for residential development on minimum five acre lots. ... The standards in Table 19.2-9, RC Lot and Building Standards, reflect a minimum five-acre lot served by private well and septic systems.
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