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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.05.15.B

All Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSTREETFront 100 ftRear 100 ftSide 100 ftStreet side 100 ftMIN LOT AREA2 acMAX FAR0.3
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.
87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft
Street sideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
100 ft

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.
0.3

Servicing

Applies near
AR, TR, JLMA
Geographic extent
Applies to Fire and/or Rescue Stations in AR, TR, and JLMA Zoning Districts

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum public road access points2 points

    Only 2 points of access are permitted to a public road.

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

    The maximum total area of Storage Areas is 20% of the total gross floor area of the principal structure.

  • ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in AR Cluster Subdivisions

    Fire and/or rescue station uses are not permitted within AR Cluster Subdivisions.

Parking

  • Parking per Section 7.06.02

    Refer to Section 7.06.02. These spaces are in addition to vehicle storage spaces for vehicles not in use.

Setback

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area is 2 acres. The maximum floor area ratio is 0.3. The minimum setbacks from lot lines are 100 feet from all lot lines, or 60 feet if a Buffer Type C is provided.
Section 4.05.15.B