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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.02.09

All Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 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.
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.)

Density

Maximum units
4

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to Tenant Dwellings on all parcels except open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. parcels. Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. parcels only in A-3, A-10, and TR Zoning Districts.

Extracted standards

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

Density

Other

  • Internal road access

    Structures for Multifamily Dwellings must be accessed by internal roads, must not have direct access to public roads

  • Maximum gross floor area2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

    A Tenant Dwelling unit must not exceed 2,500 square feet in gross floor area

  • Screening requirement

    must be screened from public roads and neighboring properties in accord with the landscaping and buffering requirements for Multifamily Dwellings

From the ordinance

The total number of Tenant Dwellings must not exceed 4 per parcel. One additional Tenant Dwelling is permitted for each 25 acres of a parcel in excess of the minimum 10 acres. One Tenant Dwelling is permitted on a parcel of at least 10 acres. A Tenant Dwelling unit must not exceed 2,500 square feet in gross floor area.
Section 4.02.09