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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.04.18

All Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 acMAX FAR0.01
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.)

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.
0.01

Uses

Permitted by right1

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Other

Setback

From the ordinance

A Rural Restaurant use in the AR Zoning Districts is permitted if the use meets the requirements in Sections 4.04.18.B.1 or 4.04.18.B.2, and Sections 4.04.18.C through 4.04.18.G; otherwise review and approval of a Minor Special Exception is required. The maximum floor area ratio is 0.01. The use must be set back from lot lines as follows: Structures of up to 1,500 square feet of gross floor area: 100 feet minimum; Structures greater than 1,500 and up to 4,000 square feet: 150 feet; Structures over 4,000 square feet: 175 feet.
Section 4.04.18