Southampton County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 18-425
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Maximum floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. area on a lot30 pct
No more than thirty (30) percent of the required minimum area of any lot shall be located in a floodplain area
Other
- Minimum number of lots in subdivision5 lots
The minimum area of the subdivision shall be sufficient to accommodate at least five (5) lots of minimum average area.
- Public water and sewer required for averaging in R-1 and R-2
provided that public water and sewer service are utilized in the R-1 and R-2 residential districts
- Maximum water coverage on a lot30 pct
no more than thirty (30) percent of the required minimum area of any lot may be covered by the waters of a lake, pond or canal planned and approved as a part of and wholly within the subdivision.
From the ordinance
Averaging of lot areas for detached single-family dwellings or clustering of lots and provision of public or private common open space in a subdivision are permitted in the A-2 agricultural and R-1 and R-2 residential districts