Mathews County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
§175-15.12
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Setback
- Additional front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for highway widening
Additional front yard setbacks may be required for new construction adjacent to planned highway widening.
From the ordinance
Wherever there shall be plans in existence, approved by either the State Department of Highways or by the governing body for the widening of any street or highway, the commission or governing body may require additional front yard setbacks for any new construction or for any structures altered or remodeled adjacent to the future planned right-of-way, in order to preserve and protect the right-of-way for such planned street or highway widening.