Washington County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 66-222 through 66-228
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right9
Conditional / special use12
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line5 ft
No accessory structure may be closer than five feet to any property line.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on side street for corner lots35 ft
The minimum side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 35 feet for both the main building and accessory buildings.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. with public water43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum lot area 2 acres; 1 acre with public water.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way
Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way that is 50 feet or greater in width or 100 feet or more from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 2 acres; 1 acre with public water. Setback 50 ft from ROW. Side yard 25 ft, rear 50 ft. Frontage 150 ft.