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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.07.09

SubstationAll Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1 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.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Applies near
Rural Economy Cluster Lots
Applies within
100 ft
Geographic extent
Permitted on Rural Economy Cluster Lots by Special Exception; not on Residential Cluster, Preservation Farm, or Common Open SpaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. Lots. SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. 100 ft from adjacent residential development.

Uses

Permitted by right1

Conditional / special use1

  • utility substations requiring special exception in AR Cluster Subdivisions

Accessory1

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Required buffer type

    All Utility Substations and accessory storage yards require a minimum Buffer Type C...

  • Commission Permit required

    A Commission Permit (10.09) is required for a Utility Substation unless the Utility Substation is specifically delineated in the Comprehensive Plan.

  • Private road access allowed

    Utility Substations may be accessed by a private road.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size of a Utility Substation is 1 acre exclusive of major floodplain. ... Utility Substations must be set back a minimum of 100 feet from adjacent property with existing residential development...
Section 4.07.09