Warsaw, Virginia · General provision

Article 4-1 and 4-2

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMin depth 2 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 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, 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.
Article 4-1 and 4-2