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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.07.04

All Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA21,780 sq ft
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.
21,780 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to uses in the Utilities use category provided by Towns, VDOT, Loudoun Water, Public UtilitiesPublic utilitiesInfrastructure serving the wider area — substations, pump stations, towers., and Public Service Corporations. Excludes substations and solar facilities.

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • AR Cluster restrictions

    Water Supply Reservoirs are permitted by Special Exception on Rural Economy Cluster Lots. Sewage Treatment Plant, Water Storage Tank, and Water Treatment Plant uses are not permitted within AR Cluster Subdivisions.

  • Minimum Buffer Type C

    All Major Utility facilities require a minimum Buffer Type C.

  • Private road access allowed

    Major Utilities may be accessed by private road.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential in GI districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.200 ft

    Sewage Treatment Plant and Water Treatment Plant (Major Utility) in the GI Zoning District must set back all structures 200 feet from any adjacent residentially zoned property.

  • TRC Outer Core substation special exception

    In the TRC Outer Core, the only Major Utility use that is permitted by Special Exception is Utility Substation.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area is 0.5 acre.
Section 4.07.04