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Page County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

§ 125-14

All Page County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 50 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.

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Building access

    Every building hereafter erected or moved shall be on a lot adjacent to a public street or with access to a private street approved by the governing body, and all buildings shall be so located on lots as to provide safe and convenient access for servicing, fire protection and required off-street parking.

  • Extension into more restricted districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.30 ft

    Where a district boundary line divides a lot in single or joint ownership of record at the time such line is established, the regulations for the less restricted portion of such lot shall extend not more than 30 feet into the more restricted portion, provided that the lot has frontage on a street in the less restricted district.

  • Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. reduction50 pct

    In no case shall a front yard be reduced by more than 50% of the required front yard for that district.

  • HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exceptions

    The height limitations contained in the district regulations do not apply to spires, belfries, cupolas, silos, feed mills, barns, antennas, water tanks, ventilators, chimneys, structures required for electric and telephone facilities or other similar appurtenances.

  • Intersection visibility75 ft

    On a corner lot, nothing shall be erected (except street signs, utility poles or traffic signs), placed, planted or allowed to grow in such manner as to impede vision between a height of 2 1/2 and 10 feet above the center-line grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street center lines of such intersecting streets and a line joining the street center lines at a distance of 75 feet from the point of intersection.

  • Projections into yards5 ft

    Terraces, patios or unenclosed porches may project no more than five feet into any yard setback. Open balconies or fire escapes may project no more than five feet into any yard nor closer than three feet to any adjacent lot line. Aboveground swimming pools may project no more than five feet into any yard setback.

From the ordinance

On a corner lot, nothing shall be erected (except street signs, utility poles or traffic signs), placed, planted or allowed to grow in such manner as to impede vision between a height of 2 1/2 and 10 feet above the center-line grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street center lines of such intersecting streets and a line joining the street center lines at a distance of 75 feet from the point of intersection.
§ 125-14