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Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 36.555(e)(1)

All Essex County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA21,500 sq ft
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.
21,500 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.49 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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From the ordinance

Every subdivision, condominium or cluster development containing any lots of less than 21,500 square feet shall be provided with either a public or centralized water system (Type A or Type B) as defined herein to serve each and every lot.
Section 36.555(e)(1)