zoneoptics
Virginia Beach, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 233.15

All Virginia Beach districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA20,000 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.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

  • Lighting direction

    All lighting shall be directed toward the interior of the site and shall be designed so as to shield adjacent properties from light and glare;

Other

  • Equipment enclosure

    All equipment shall be located within a fully-enclosed building;

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districts15 ft

    Where adjacent to a residential or apartment district without an intervening street, alley or body of water greater than twenty-five (25) feet in width, a minimum fifteen-foot setback shall be required along all lot lines adjoining such residential or apartment district, and Category IV landscape screening shall be required unless otherwise specified in the conditional use permit. No building or structure or vehicular parking surface shall be located within such setback.

From the ordinance

Fiber-optics transmission facilities. (a) All equipment shall be located within a fully-enclosed building; (b) Minimum lot area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet;
Sec. 233.15