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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.08.08

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

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Hours of operation

    Hours of Operation are limited to 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

  • Maximum storage area as percentage of principal structure gross floor area20 pct

    The total area of Storage Areas must not exceed 20% of the total gross floor area of the principal structure.

Setback

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area for a Commercial Winery is 10 acres. The maximum floor area ratio for a Commercial Winery is 0.04. The total area of Storage Areas must not exceed 20% of the total gross floor area of the principal structure. The minimum setback is 125 feet from all lot lines. Hours of Operation are limited to 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Section 4.08.08