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Surry County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4-407

All Surry County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA20 ac
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.
871,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (20 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

Minimum lot size: 20 acres. Minimum setback for stables and riding arenas: 200 feet from all property lines.
Sec. 4-407