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South Boston, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 58-1139

All South Boston districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 20 ftRear 10 ftSide 10 ftMin width 100 ftMIN LOT AREA10,000 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.
10,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
100 ft

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

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

Uses

Permitted by right4

Extracted standards

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

Setback

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size shall be 10,000 square feet. The minimum lot width shall be 100 feet.
Sec. 58-1139