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Culpeper, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 27-55

Mobile Home ParkAll Culpeper districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 20 ftRear 10 ftSide 6 ftMin width 40 ftMIN LOT AREA4,000 sq ftMAX DENSITY7 du/acMIN OPEN SPACE20%
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.
4,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
40 ft

Density

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

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
6 ft

Height & bulk

Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
20%

Extracted standards

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

Setback

From the ordinance

The maximum density shall be seven (7) mobile home lots per acre. The minimum lot area for an individual mobile home lot shall be four thousand (4,000) square feet. The minimum lot width shall be forty (40) feet. Twenty (20) percent of each mobile home park shall be provided for park or playground space. Front setback from private street, twenty (20) feet from right-of-way line; Rear setback, ten (10) feet from rear lot line; Side yards, six (6) feet.
Sec. 27-55