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Christiansburg, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 42-341

Planned DevelopmentAll Christiansburg districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 acMAX DENSITY30 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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Density

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

Extracted standards

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

Other

Parking

  • Maximum parking reduction20 pct

    Required off-street parking may be decreased by no more than 20 percent.

From the ordinance

For residential uses within a planned commercial development, the dwelling unit density shall not exceed 30 dwelling units per gross acre. Required off-street parking may be decreased by no more than 20 percent. The total development area, whether existing as a single parcel or multiple adjacent parcels is at least ten acres ...
Sec. 42-341