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Southampton County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 18-429

Rural ResidentialAll Southampton County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA2 ac
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.
87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Pasture requirement per horse

    one (1) acre of fenced pasture for the first horse and one (1) additional acre of fenced pasture for each additional horse.

From the ordinance

Horses for private, non-commercial use shall only be held on properties in the A-1 and A-2, agricultural, zoning districts as a permitted use; in the R-1, Residential and RR, Rural Residential zoning districts as permitted only upon issuance of a conditional use permit. The minimum lot size for the keeping of horses for private use shall be two (2) acres...
Sec. 18-429