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Virginia Beach, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 233

All Virginia Beach districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 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

  • Adjacency to major street

    The site shall be adjacent to a major street, and entrances and exits shall be from the major street; provided, however, that where adjacent minor streets can be used for access to the major street, this arrangement may be permitted, except in residential districts.

Parking

  • Waiting area capacity30 pct

    Off-street parking or storage lanes for waiting patrons shall be available to accommodate not less than thirty (30) percent of the vehicular capacity of the theatre; provided that, if at least four (4) entrance lanes, each with a ticket dispenser, are provided, then the amount may be reduced to ten (10) percent.

From the ordinance

Minimum area of a drive-in theatre site shall be ten (10) acres.
Sec. 233