Gloucester County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 34-146

All Gloucester County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

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 depth: 2.5 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

Corner lot extra width percentage25 pct
Corner lots for residential use shall have not less than 25 percent extra width
Maximum lot depth-to-width ratio2.5 ratio
The ratio of the depth of any lot to its width shall not be greater than 2½ to one
Planting screen easement width10 ft
A planting screen easement of at least ten feet
Minimum shrub height at planting3 ft
shrubs at least three feet in height at time of planting

From the ordinance

The ratio of the depth of any lot to its width shall not be greater than 2½ to one. Corner lots for residential use shall have not less than 25 percent extra width.
Sec. 34-146