zoneoptics
Madison County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

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All Madison County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 acMAX HEIGHT48 ft / 4 storiesMIN OPEN SPACE50%
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.)

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
48 ft
Maximum storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
4
Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
50%

Servicing

Geographic extent
A1 (General AgricultureAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them.) and C1 (Conservation) zoning districts

Uses

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area for event venue use shall be ten acres in A1 (General Agriculture) zoning district and ten acres in the C1 (Conservation) zoning district. ... A minimum of 50 percent of the site shall remain as open space. ... No new building shall exceed 48 feet (four stories) in height
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