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Virginia Beach, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 240

All Virginia Beach districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA25 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.
1,089,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (25 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.

Density

Other

  • Permanent mobile homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. for employees, max 1 per 150 spaces, max 5

    Includes uses and structures customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to permitted uses and structures, including permanent mobile homes with a maximum of one mobile home per one hundred fifty (150) recreational campground spaces, not to exceed five (5) mobile homes, for the specific purpose of occupancy of employees operating and maintaining the recreational campground.

  • Minimum 50 spaces available at opening50 spaces

    At the opening of any recreational campground for occupancy by units, all required facilities and improvements shall have been completed, and the minimum number of spaces available and ready for occupancy shall be fifty (50).

  • Not less than 8% of area devoted to recreation8 pct

    Not less than eight (8) percent of the area of the recreational campground shall be devoted to recreation area.

From the ordinance

Minimum area for creation of a recreational campground shall be twenty-five (25) acres. At the opening of any recreational campground for occupancy by units, all required facilities and improvements shall have been completed, and the minimum number of spaces available and ready for occupancy shall be fifty (50). Maximum density in recreational campgrounds shall not exceed twelve (12) spaces per acre.
Sec. 240