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Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

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Industrial
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Dimensional standards

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.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
100 ft

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

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
35 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.
20 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
75 ft
Maximum floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.
0.5
Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.
60%
Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
25%

Uses

Permitted by right57

Conditional / special use35

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Building separation for structures over 35 feet30 ft

    Where structures exceed the thirty-five-foot height requirement a building separation of thirty (30) feet shall be required.

  • Side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase for structures over 35 feet1 ft per ft over 35

    The side and rear yard setbacks for any structure in excess of thirty-five (35) feet in height shall be increased one (1) foot for each additional foot of structure height over thirty-five (35) feet.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for industrial uses adjacent to residential subdivisions100 ft

    For parcels directly adjacent to an existing residential subdivision of at least five (5) lots recorded on the same plat as of July 1, 2025, the minimum setback for new industrial uses consisting of one (1) building shall be one hundred (100) feet and two hundred (200) feet for industrial uses with two (2) or more buildings...

From the ordinance

Minimum lot area: Twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Maximum height: Seventy-five (75) feet. Front yard: Thirty-five (35) feet. Side yard: Twenty (20) feet. Rear yard: Twenty (20) feet. Maximum lot coverage: Sixty percent (60%). Minimum open space ratio: Twenty-five percent (25%).
Sec. 4-11003 through 4-11006