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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

4.04.01.B, 4.04.01.C

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 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.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 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.

Noise

  • Noise restriction near residential250 ft

    no loading/unloading activities, or other noise-producing activities are allowed within 250 feet of an existing adjacent Single-Family Detached use during the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.

Other

  • Maximum access points2 count

    Only 2 points of access are permitted from an Animal Hospital to a public road.

  • Maximum storage area percentage10 pct

    The total area of Storage Areas must not exceed 10% of the total area of the principal structure(s).

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area for any Animal Hospital is 5 acres. The floor area ratio must not exceed 0.04.
4.04.01.B, 4.04.01.C