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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 4.07.09

All 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.)

Extracted standards

2 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.

Setback

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