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South Boston, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 58-694 (c), (e)(5)

Educational InstitutionalAll South Boston districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA2 acMAX HEIGHT60 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE70%MIN OPEN SPACE30%
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.)

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
60 ft
Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.
70%
Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
30%
Minimum landscaping
20%

Housing

Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
by_right
Two-family
by_right
Three-family
by_right
Four-plus family
by_right

Uses

Permitted by right39

Extracted standards

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

Landscaping & trees

  • Parking tree ratio10 spaces per tree

    Surface parking areas: one tree per every ten parking spaces.

  • Street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. landscaping width20 ft

    Street frontage landscaping: planting area minimum of 20 feet in width between building and street.

  • Street tree spacing50 ft

    Street trees: one per 50 feet of street frontage.

Lighting

From the ordinance

Lot area, minimum. Two acres. Lot coverage, maximum. 70 percent lot area. Building height, maximum. 60 feet. Open space, minimum. 30 percent lot area. All campus development shall be served by public water and sewer.
Sec. 58-694 (c), (e)(5)