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York County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 24.1-222

All York County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 20 ftRear 20 ftSide 10 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.

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft

Servicing

Geographic extent
Built-up areas

Extracted standards

1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • YardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. averaging in built-up areas

    Where fifty percent (50%) or more of the lots within a block are occupied by existing buildings and the average yards (front, rear, or side) of the existing principal buildings are less than that required by this chapter, the average so established may be taken in lieu of that which is otherwise required, provided however that in no case shall a front yard depth so determined be less than twenty feet (20'), or less than the setback line described on a recorded subdivision plat.

From the ordinance

in no case shall a front yard depth so determined be less than twenty feet (20'), or less than the setback line described on a recorded subdivision plat.
Sec. 24.1-222