Dimensional standards
Lot
- Minimum lot depth
- 2 ft
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum desirable lot depth to width ratio2 ratio
a ratio of depth to width of two to one shall be considered a desirable maximum.
- Maximum residential block length1,200 ft
Residential blocks shall normally not exceed 1,200 feet in length
- Minimum right-of-way width for cemetery access50 ft
shall make provision for public access by a right-of-way at least 50 feet in width.
- Minimum residential block length400 ft
or be less than 400 feet in length
- Minimum usable building area with slopes less than 15%10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
which would provide less than 10,000 useable square feet of contiguous building area with slopes of less than 15 percent.
- Public water and sewer required for subdivision
No land shall be subdivided unless there is public water and sewer available to every lot within the subdivision.
- Wetlands and floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. restrictions
Wetlands, as defined in the Virginia Wetlands Zoning Act, or any land subject to periodic flooding shall not be developed for residential occupancy
From the ordinance
Design and performance standards for development.