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Petersburg, Virginia · General provision

Article 22, Section 1

All Petersburg districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA8 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.
348,480 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (8 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

From the ordinance

Lot is to be within a minimum contiguous area of eight (8) acres, all of which is zoned as agricultural.
Article 22, Section 1