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Surry County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4-907

All Surry County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA3 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.
130,680 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (3 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Conditional / special use1

Extracted standards

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

Lot

Other

  • Firing line distance from public road100 ft

    The firing line or points shall be located at least 100 feet from any public road.

  • Firing point distance to adjacent property600 ft

    The site shall be so designed that the distance to any adjacent property measured from the firing point or points in the direction of fire shall be not less than 600 feet, or an earthen backstop of 20 feet or greater shall be provided a minimum of 200 feet from the firing line.

  • Zoning permit validity60 days

    A zoning permit shall be valid for a period not to exceed 60 consecutive days.

  • ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. hours for firearm discharge

    The use or discharge of firearms shall be prohibited between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.

  • Shotguns only

    Shotguns only shall be used in a turkey shoot.

From the ordinance

A turkey shoot shall be on a site of not less than three acres.
Sec. 4-907