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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.05.02

All Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 acMAX FAR0.04
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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 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.
0.04

Uses

Permitted by right1

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area for an Agricultural Cultural Center is 10 acres. The maximum floor area ratio is 0.04. The total area of all storage yards is limited to 10% of the total gross floor area of the principal structure on the site.
Section 4.05.02