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New Kent County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 98-412(g)

All New Kent County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA12,000 sq ft
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.
12,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.28 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

From the ordinance

For lots served by public water and sewer systems, the minimum lot area shall be 12,000 square feet.
Sec. 98-412(g)