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Virginia Beach, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 242.2

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

  • All lighting directed toward interior of site

    All lighting shall be directed toward the interior of the site and away from adjoining properties.

Other

  • No more than 3 trucks or trailers for rent displayed3 units

    Trucks and trailers for rental shall be displayed in an area designated on a site plan submitted with the application for a conditional use permit, no more than three (3) trucks or trailers for rent shall be displayed and no truck or trailer shall be displayed within the first ten (10) feet of any front or side yard abutting the right-of-way line of a street to be measured from the property line to any displayed truck or trailer on the premises.

  • Fence not less than 6 feet and Category VI landscaping if within 100 feet of residential6 ft

    The designated area shall be screened, except for necessary openings for ingress and egress, from any public right-of-way or adjoining residential or apartment zoning district within one hundred (100) feet of the designated area by a fence not less than six (6) feet in height and Category VI landscaping.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Trucks and trailers for rental shall be displayed in an area designated on a site plan...
Sec. 242.2