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Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 26-54.8(6)

All Hanover County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

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.
50
Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
10%

Extracted standards

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

Landscaping & trees

  • Maximum street tree spacing55 ft

    Street trees must be provided at a ratio of one (1) street tree per forty (40) feet of road frontage and spaced no closer than 25 feet apart and no farther than fifty-five (55) feet apart.

  • Minimum street tree spacing25 ft

    Street trees must be provided at a ratio of one (1) street tree per forty (40) feet of road frontage and spaced no closer than 25 feet apart and no farther than fifty-five (55) feet apart.

  • Street tree ratio1 tree per 40 ft

    Street trees must be provided at a ratio of one (1) street tree per forty (40) feet of road frontage and spaced no closer than 25 feet apart and no farther than fifty-five (55) feet apart.

Other

  • Direct road access required

    All lots must have direct access to a public road.

  • Maximum subdivision size25 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    No residential subdivision may encompass more than twenty-five (25) acres or include more than twenty-five (25) lots.

  • Maximum number of lots25 lots

    No residential subdivision may encompass more than twenty-five (25) acres or include more than twenty-five (25) lots.

  • Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.10 pct

    At least ten percent (10%) of the acreage within the subdivision must be reserved as common open space conveyed to a homeowners' association.

  • Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. strip width25 ft

    Any strips of open space must be at least twenty-five (25) feet wide to count towards minimum open space requirements.

  • Minimum sidewalk width4 ft

    A sidewalk or pedestrian pathway that is paved and at least four (4) feet in width must be located on at least one (1) side of all public streets internal to or adjacent to the subdivision.

  • Minimum thoroughfare buffer width50 ft

    If lots back to major thoroughfares or external roadways, a thoroughfare buffer at least fifty (50) feet in width must be provided.

  • Shared access required

    If lots access a roadway designated as a major throughfare in the comprehensive plan, shared access must be provided for each two (2) lots that are adjacent to one (1) another and front on such roadway.

  • Thoroughfare buffer plantings

    At a minimum, thoroughfare buffers must include at two (2) large deciduous trees, one (1) small deciduous tree, and one (1) evergreen tree, and four (4) shrubs per one hundred (100) feet of road frontage.

From the ordinance

Residential subdivisions created within this district that include four (4) or more lots must adhere to the following: No residential subdivision may encompass more than twenty-five (25) acres or include more than twenty-five (25) lots. At least ten percent (10%) of the acreage within the subdivision must be reserved as common open space...
Section 26-54.8(6)