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Virginia Beach, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 239

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 away from adjoining properties.

Other

  • Display setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street5 ft

    No motor vehicle shall be displayed for sale or rental within the first five (5) feet of any front yard or side yard abutting the right-of-way line of a street to be measured from the property line to any displayed motor vehicle on the premises.

  • Privacy fence when abutting residential6 ft

    Where such establishment abuts a residential or apartment zoning district, there shall be a six-foot solid privacy fence, or other suitable buffering as required as a condition of the use permit, installed along the property line.

From the ordinance

Motor vehicle sales and rentals. (a) The minimum lot size shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet.
Sec. 239