zoneoptics
Gloucester County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 34-252

Mixed Use DevelopmentAll Gloucester County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA21,780 sq ftMAX FAR0.6MAX DENSITY5 du/acMAX IMPERVIOUS70%
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.
21,780 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Density

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

Height & bulk

Maximum floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.
0.6
Maximum impervious coverageImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios.
70%

Uses

Permitted by right1

  • Residential dwellings including conventional single-family dwellings, duplex dwellings, and multiple family dwellings

Extracted standards

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

Design

  • Architectural design standards

    All structures within a MXD are required to comply with the town's architectural design standards.

Other

From the ordinance

Within a mixed use development district, the following provisions shall apply: ...
Sec. 34-252