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South Boston, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 58-1058

All South Boston districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETFront 25 ftRear 25 ftSide 20 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft

Uses

Permitted by right2

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

Signage

From the ordinance

Minimum lot size for nursing homes and assisted living facilities shall be 20,000 square feet.
Sec. 58-1058