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New Kent County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 98-874(d)

All New Kent County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin frontage 400 ftMIN LOT AREA15 acMAX IMPERVIOUS70%
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.
653,400 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (15 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
400 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum impervious coverageImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios.
70%

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Perimeter buffer width100 ft

    Perimeter buffers or no less than 100 feet in width shall be provided along all side and rear yards.

  • Road classification requirement

    Truck stops shall only be located on roads with a functional classification of minor arterial or higher order street

  • Safety and security plan required

    A safety and security plan for the site shall be developed and submitted to the sheriff's office for approval.

  • Traffic impact analysis required

    A traffic impact analysis shall be prepared by the applicant and submitted to the zoning administrator.

  • Type C transitional buffer required

    Within said buffers shall be established as Type C transitional buffer (see article XXVII).

Parking

  • All parking in designated spaces

    All parking on the site shall be in designated, defined and marked spaces.

  • Parking and on-site circulation plan

    A parking and on-site circulation analysis and plan shall be prepared by one or more professionals acting within the scope of their professional licensure or certification and submitted with any application for a truck stop.

From the ordinance

Truck stops shall only be located on roads with a functional classification of minor arterial or higher order street and shall have a minimum lot frontage of 400 feet along each such road from which access to the facility is provided.
Sec. 98-874(d)