Purcellville, Virginia · General provision

Section 3.3 and 3.5

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin depth 2.5 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 depth
2.5 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • an additional ten-foot buffer strip will be provided along the main street or highway without the right of access across such buffer strip.

  • Every lot shall front on an approved street or private roadway.

  • Maximum block length1,200 ft

    Length of blocks shall not exceed 1,200 feet in length.

  • Maximum dead-end street length1,200 ft

    Dead-end streets are to be no more than 1,200 feet long.

  • Maximum lot depth to width ratio2.5 ratio

    Except for townhouse developments, lot depths shall not exceed two and one-half times the width of the lot.

  • Maximum street grade5 pct

    nor more than five percent unless a modification is approved by the town.

  • Minimum street grade0.5 pct

    Grades shall not be less than one-half of one percent.

  • Minimum turnaround radius at property line50 ft

    All dead-end streets shall be provided with a turn-around at the end, having a radius at the property line of at least 50 feet.

From the ordinance

Dead-end streets are to be no more than 1,200 feet long... turn-around... radius at the property line of at least 50 feet... Length of blocks shall not exceed 1,200 feet... lot depths shall not exceed two and one-half times the width of the lot.
Section 3.3 and 3.5