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Virginia Beach, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 239.02

All Virginia Beach districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA5 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.
217,800 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (5 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Facility may be operated only in conjunction with an active farming operation on the site

    Such facilities may be operated only in conjunction with an active farming operation on the site.

  • No location where noise and other potential adverse impacts may affect nearby residential properties

    No such facility shall be located where noise and other potential adverse impacts may affect nearby residential properties;

  • No retail sales of processed mulch to the general public

    There shall be no retail sales of processed mulch to the general public;

  • No machinery operation between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.

    No machinery shall be operated between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.;

From the ordinance

Minimum lot area shall be five (5) acres; No machinery shall be operated between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.; ...
Sec. 239.02