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Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 32-300.15.1

All Prince William County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA21,780 sq 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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
21,780 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The lot shall be at least one-half acre in size, except as permitted in the A-1, Agricultural, Zoning District.
Sec. 32-300.15.1