Southampton County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 18-104

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSTREETFront 15 ftRear 15 ftSide 15 ftStreet side 20 ftMin width 70 ftMIN LOT AREA7,000 sq ftMIN UNIT SIZE500 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.

Uses

Permitted by right6

Conditional / special use4

  • manufactured home parks
  • nursery schools, kindergartens, child care centers, day nursery, or child day care centers
  • public or governmental buildings and uses, including schools, fire stations (volunteer or otherwise), parks, parkways, playgrounds and public boat landings except those which have been approved as a part of the subdivision plan
  • buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations

Prohibited1

  • recreational vehicles (except in areas designed and approved for the same by the board of supervisors)

Extracted standards

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

Floodplain

Landscaping & trees

Other

Parking

Signage

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size in a manufactured home park shall be seven thousand (7,000) square feet with a minimum width of seventy (70) feet. ... a setback of fifteen (15) feet shall be observed from the front lot line fronting on any internal street.
Sec. 18-104

Parking requirements

{
  "manufactured_home": "2 spaces"
}

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths and the like for electrical power distribution or communication service, and underground pipelines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, water storage tanks, pumping or regulator stations, major transmission lines, storage yards and substations",
      "yard sale or garage sale for disposal of used household items, provided such sales are not held more frequently than twice a year on the same lot, are not conducted for more than three (3) days, and include items assembled only from households in the immediate neighborhood"
    ]
  }
}