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Frederick County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

§ 165-204.17

All Frederick County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETFront 100 ftRear 100 ftSide 100 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.

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

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Slaughterhouse enclosed operations

    All operations must be under roof and screened from view from adjoining properties and public streets.

  • Slaughterhouse insect and rodent control

    Such establishments shall be so constructed and maintained as to effectively control the entrance of insects and rodents. The doors, windows and other openings thereof shall be fitted with screen doors and wire window screens of not coarser than fourteen-gauge mesh.

  • Slaughterhouse max floor area20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    Total building(s) square footage should not exceed 20,000 square feet (SF).

  • Slaughterhouse sanitation

    It shall be unlawful to operate any slaughterhouse, abattoir, rendering plant or establishment where animals or fowl, dead or alive, are processed or where food or feed is manufactured or processed, unless such place or establishment is maintained and operated in a clean and sanitary manner at all times.

From the ordinance

All buildings, animal unloading/staging areas, and animal pens shall be a minimum of 100 feet from all property lines. Total building(s) square footage should not exceed 20,000 square feet (SF).
§ 165-204.17