Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 4-3006, 4-3007, and cluster development standards
Rural ResidentialAll Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum lot size (base density)5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum lot shall be forty thousand (40,000) square feet and the maximum lot size shall be five (5) acres.
- Minimum contiguous acreage20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The proposed development shall contain a minimum of twenty (20) contiguous acres located within the RR district.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. percentage (base density)50 pct
Fifty percent (50%) of the site shall be permanently established in open space including farm or forest use.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. percentage (increased density)60 pct
Sixty percent (60%) of the site shall be permanently established in open space.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. percentage (maximum density)70 pct
Seventy percent (70%) of the site shall remain in open space.
Setback
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Accessory structures: Five (5) feet.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from centerline when ROW < 50 ft85 ft
Where right-of-way is < fifty (50) feet, the minimum front yard setback is eighty-five (85) feet from center line of road.
From the ordinance
The following general standards shall apply to all cluster developments in the RR District... minimum lot 40,000 sq ft, density options 1/10, 1/8, 1/5 acre per unit.