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Roanoke, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 36.2-430

All Roanoke districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA20,000 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.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 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.

Other

From the ordinance

Towing services permitted by this chapter shall be subject to the following standards: (a) The lot area designated for the towing service use shall contain a minimum of twenty thousand (20,000) square feet; (b) There shall be no outdoor storage of any damaged or inoperative motor vehicles or trailers for a period exceeding one hundred twenty (120) calendar days
Sec. 36.2-430