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New Kent County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 98-873(e)

All New Kent County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA20 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.
871,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (20 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Health department approvals

    No permit shall be issued until all required state and local health department approvals have been obtained.

  • Minimum acreage20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    Unless associated with and on property owned by a house of worship or an associated charitable entity, a cemetery shall be at least 20 acres in size.

  • Perpetual maintenance evidence

    Any organization or entity other than a house of worship or a charitable entity associated with a house of worship proposing to establish a cemetery shall submit evidence which demonstrates that the cemetery will be maintained ad infinitum including compliance with state licensing requirements.

  • Plotting plan

    In lieu of a site plan, a plotting plan of the proposed burial sites and a traffic circulation and parking plan in the cemetery shall be submitted for approval.

  • Prohibition in residential districts

    Cemeteries shall not be located in residential classified districts unless associated with and on the same property as a house of worship.

  • Rights-of-way width20 ft

    Rights-of-way throughout the cemetery shall be at least 20 feet in width.

  • Favorable soil and water characteristics

    Cemeteries shall only be located in those areas which have favorable soil and water characteristics as identified by an inspection of the soil by an engineer or soil scientist.

Setback

From the ordinance

Unless associated with and on property owned by a house of worship or an associated charitable entity, a cemetery shall be at least 20 acres in size.
Sec. 98-873(e)