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South Boston, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 58-1031

All South Boston districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin width 20 ftMIN LOT AREA1 acMIN OPEN SPACE100%
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.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
20 ft

Density

Maximum units
6

Height & bulk

Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
100%

Uses

Permitted by right1

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

No more than six contiguous townhouse dwelling units shall be constructed as a group. The minimum width for individual townhouse lot shall be 20 feet. A townhouse development shall have a minimum of one acre.
Sec. 58-1031