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Franklin, Virginia · General provision

Article XVI, § 16.2(a)

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 50 ftMIN LOT AREA5,000 sq ftMAX DENSITY8 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.
5,000 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.
50 ft

Density

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

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

Each lot provided for the occupancy of a single mobile home unit shall have an area of not less than 5,000 square feet and width of not less than 50 feet. No park shall be permitted an average density of mobile home lots of more than eight per acre. Each mobile home court shall provide an area of not less than five acres.
Article XVI, § 16.2(a)