Southampton County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 18-518
Dimensional standards
Density
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from campground boundary100 ft
Accessory structures not closer than 100 feet to any campground boundary.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from R-1/R-2 residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.200 ft
Accessory structures not closer than 200 feet to any lot in an R-1 or R-2 residential district.
- Maximum camping site density12 units/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Density of camping sites shall not exceed 12 units per acre.
- Minimum campground area2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Not less than 2 contiguous acres.
- Minimum internal access drive width10 ft
Internal access drives shall be at least 10 feet in width.
- Minimum camping site area3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No site shall be less than 3,000 square feet.
From the ordinance
The area shall contain not less than two (2) contiguous acres... The density of camping sites... shall not exceed twelve (12) units per acre and no site shall be less than three thousand (3,000) square feet in area.