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Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 5-5005.H

All Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 50 ftRear 35 ftSide 25 ftMin frontage 200 ftMIN LOT AREA5 ac
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.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
200 ft

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
35 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft

Extracted standards

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From the ordinance

Minimum area is five (5) acres; Minimum frontage of two hundred (200) feet on a public road; Swimming pools, tennis courts, recreation areas, and buildings shall be at least two hundred (200) feet from any adjacent residential zone; Setbacks for swimming pools and tennis facilities shall be fifty (50) feet from the front property line, thirty-five (35) feet from the rear line, and twenty-five (25) feet from each side property line in all zones
Sec. 5-5005.H