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New Kent County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 98-877

All New Kent County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 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.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Environmental

  • RPA buffer restriction

    No tree harvesting shall occur within Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Areas including the 100-foot resource protection area buffer. ... may approve harvesting 50 percent of the crown cover within the landward 50 feet ...

Other

  • Erosion and sedimentation control plan required

    Where stump removal, grubbing, or other soil disturbing activities are proposed ... an erosion and sedimentation control plan shall be submitted to and approved by the county

  • Forest management plan required

    All forestry operations shall be in accordance with a forest management plan approved by the state department of forestry.

From the ordinance

A parcel of five acres or greater shall be required for forestry operations. All forestry operations shall be in accordance with a forest management plan approved by the state department of forestry. ... No tree harvesting shall occur within Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Areas including the 100-foot resource protection area buffer.
Sec. 98-877