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Gloucester County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 34-252

All 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%

Housing

Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
by_right
Two-family
by_right
Three-family
by_right
Four-plus family
by_right

Uses

Permitted by right6

  • Residential dwellings (single-family, duplex, multifamily)
  • Retail sales (food, beverages, wearing apparel, toys, bait and tackle, sundries, books, leather goods, jewelry, art, cameras, sports, musical instruments, TV/radio, flowers, gifts, drugs, home furnishings, appliances, office equipment, antiques, hardware, auto parts, pet shops, dog grooming)
  • Restaurants (max 20% alcohol)
  • Personal service establishments (barbershops, beauty parlors, steam baths, exercise salons, masseurs, watch repair, printing, funeral homes, locksmith, title companies, video rentals)
  • Commercial banks, savings and loan, credit units, loan companies
  • Professional and business offices

Extracted standards

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

Design

  • Architectural design standards required

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

From the ordinance

Density and intensity limited to FAR 0.60, impervious surface ratio 0.70, residential density no greater than 5 du/acre. Minimum lot size 0.5 acre. Setback may be relaxed. Buffering at C-1-A standards. Architectural design standards required.
Sec. 34-252