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Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 83-432(d)(5)a

All Powhatan 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

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

Lot

Other

  • Minimum distance from RR-5, R-U, R-2 districts500 ft

    Be located within a building that is at least 500 feet from any RR-5, R-U, or R-2 District.

From the ordinance

Convention centers: located on parcel at least five acres; located within a building at least 500 feet from any RR-5, R-U, or R-2 District.
Sec. 83-432(d)(5)a