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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

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

Environmental

  • Maximum crown cover harvest in landward 50 feet50 pct

    the zoning administrator may approve harvesting 50 percent of the crown cover within the landward 50 feet of the Resource Protection Area buffer

  • No tree harvesting in Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Areas

    No tree harvesting shall occur within Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Areas including the 100-foot resource protection area buffer.

  • Resource Protection Area buffer100 ft

    including the 100-foot resource protection area buffer

Other

  • Erosion and sedimentation control plan

    Where stump removal, grubbing, or other soil disturbing activities are proposed in conjunction with tree harvesting, except those preparations for reforestation that are in accordance with the approved forest management plan, an erosion and sedimentation control plan shall be submitted to and approved by the county prior to commencement of any soil disturbing activity.

  • Forest management plan required

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

  • Minimum parcel size5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    A parcel of five acres or greater shall be required for forestry operations.

From the ordinance

A parcel of five acres or greater shall be required for forestry operations.
Sec. 98-877