Orange County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec 70-672

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 15 ftRear 10 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.

Extracted standards

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

Parking

  • Parking spaces in lots of 5+ must be delineated5 spaces

    Parking spaces in lots of five (5) or more spaces shall be delineated by painted lines, curbs, bumper blocks, vertical lines on continuous curbing or other appropriate means of marking.

  • Minimum distance of entrance from side property line10 ft

    Such entrances shall be at least ten (10) feet from any side property line

  • Minimum entrance width per lane10 ft

    at least ten (10) feet in width per lane

  • Parking area lighting must be full-cutoff

    All lights used to illuminate any parking, stacking, loading or drive areas shall be of the full-cutoff variety

  • Maximum number of entrances per lot2 entrances

    Any lot may have a maximum of two (2) entrances on the road(s) serving the lot and parking area.

  • Maximum parking above required minimum (non-residential)10 percent

    impervious parking for all uses other than individual single-family and two-family dwellings shall not be provided in excess of ten (10) percent above the required minimum

  • Motorcycle parking substitution rule

    For every three (3) motorcycle spaces provided, the minimum number of automobile parking spaces may be reduced by one (1).

  • Parking areas shall be set back a minimum of fifteen (15) feet from any front property line

  • ten (10) feet from any side or rear property line

  • Minimum sidewalk width between building and parking5 ft

    There shall be a sidewalk at least five (5) wide between the side of any building(s) and an adjacent parking area.

  • Small car parking percentage allowance

    Where the minimum number of parking spaces is fifteen (15) to one-hundred (100), up to twenty-five (25) percent of the installed spaces may be for small cars. Where the total requirement is over one-hundred (100) spaces, spaces for compact cars may constitute up to thirty-five (35) percent of the installed spaces.

  • Surfacing required for parking areas (except single/two-family)

    All off-street parking, stacking, loading and drive areas, except for those required for single-family and two-family dwellings, shall be surfaced so as to provide a durable and dustless surface

From the ordinance

All required off-street parking spaces required herein shall be located on the same lot... Any lot may have a maximum of two (2) entrances... Parking areas shall be set back a minimum of fifteen (15) feet from any front property line and ten (10) feet from any side or rear property line... impervious parking for all uses other than individual single-family and two-family dwellings shall not be provided in excess of ten (10) percent above the required minimum.
Sec 70-672