Louisa County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 86-656

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSide 100 ftMAX HEIGHT28 ft / 2 stories
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.

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Vegetative buffer between common area and adjoining property owners25 ft

    Twenty-five foot vegetative buffer between the common area and adjoining property owners (not part of the subdivision) shall be required.

  • Fertilizer and herbicide prohibition distance from shoreline25 ft

    Applications of fertilizers and herbicides are prohibited within the berm, swale, and buffer areas, and within 25 feet of the shoreline.

  • Land disturbances over 10,000 square feet along the Lake Anna waterfront shall require a Lake Anna shoreline agreement in lieu of an erosion and sediment control plan or an erosion and sediment control plan that implements one of the recommended methods.

  • Commercial slips are allowed one enclosed storage structure per slip that is a maximum of 50 square feet.

  • Maximum structure protrusion into water150 ft

    Structures shall not protrude more than one-third of the distance across the water from the shoreline to a maximum of 150 feet.

  • Minimum water access entrance width30 ft

    Water access entrances and travelways into coves shall be at least 30 feet in width at navigable depth until the cove reaches a width of 90 feet or less.

  • Natural forested buffer along shoreline100 ft

    Shoreland protection measures may include a 100-foot wide natural, forested buffer along the shoreline.

Setback

From the ordinance

Land disturbances over 10,000 square feet along the Lake Anna waterfront shall require a Lake Anna shoreline agreement... The maximum height of structures on land within the Dominion Energy easement in all zoning districts shall be 20 feet for flat roofs and 28 feet for pitched roofs as measured from the lowest finished grade. ... All structures in a common area shall maintain a 100-foot side setback from residential and agricultural zoning districts (not part of the subdivision), and a 50-foot side setback from resort development, commercial, and industrial zoning districts. Twenty-five foot vegetative buffer between the common area and adjoining property owners (not part of the subdivision) shall be required.
Sec. 86-656