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Petersburg, Virginia · General provision

Article 26, Section 2

Planned Unit DevelopmentAll Petersburg districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Density

  • Density deviation allowed within sections

    may permit in each section deviations from the number of dwelling units per acre established for the entire planned unit development provided such deviation shall be adjusted for in other sections of the development

Other

  • Abandonment period2 years

    fail to commence the planned unit development within two (2) years after final approval has been granted

  • Changes in concept require original approval

    Any changes to housing type, density, allowed land uses, open space area, type of community facilities, method of management of common land and facilities, location of any of the elements or overall design layout shall be considered to be changes in concept.

  • Final approval required before permits

    No building permits or certificates of occupancy shall be issued until final approval of the development plans is given by the department of planning.

  • Landscaping purpose

    Proposed landscaping which shall be intended to provide shading, screening, erosion and sedimentation control and a sense of privacy and separation between uses

  • Map scale

    All maps should be four-hundred-foot scale or less to the inch.

  • Public hearingConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. required

    the commission shall advertise the proposed planned unit development for public hearing in accordance with the provisions of article 28 of the zoning ordinance.

  • Unified ownership required

    The area proposed shall be in unified ownership or control and the application filed jointly by all of the owners of the properties included in the plan.

From the ordinance

Such development may be permitted on tracts of at least ten (10) acres which are under unified ownership or control.
Article 26, Section 2