James City County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 24-101(c)
Public LandsAll James City County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum imperviousImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios. cover60 pct
impervious cover shall not exceed 60 percent of the lot area
- Reduced rear landscape width for pre-1990 lots under 65,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.10 ft
Along the rear property lines, such landscape area may be reduced to a minimum of ten feet in width or five percent of the average lot depth, whichever is greater, on lots less than 65,000 square feet which were recorded or legally in existence prior to July 3, 1990.
- Minimum side and rear landscape area width15 ft
A landscape area adjoining all side and rear property lines shall be provided which is at least 15 feet in width.
From the ordinance
A landscape area adjoining all side and rear property lines shall be provided which is at least 15 feet in width. ... impervious cover shall not exceed 60 percent of the lot area