Amelia County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

US-360

US Route 360 Overlay District

Dimensional standards

US-360 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 100 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.

Servicing

Applies near
US Route 360
Geographic extent
Properties contiguous to the US Route 360 highway right-of-way

Extracted standards

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

Landscaping & trees

  • Minimum planting strip width25 ft

    A minimum of a twenty-five-foot planting strip shall be established adjacent to the US Route 360 right-of-way for the length of the lot (excluding entry/exit points).

  • Minimum shrub density10 shrubs per 100 ft

    The planting density shall be no less than one tree per 100 feet, or 10 shrubs per 100 feet or a ratio determined by the Zoning Administrator if a combination is employed.

  • Minimum tree density1 trees per 100 ft

    The planting density shall be no less than one tree per 100 feet, or 10 shrubs per 100 feet or a ratio determined by the Zoning Administrator if a combination is employed.

Other

  • Direct access restriction

    Direct vehicular access to the US Route 360 roadway shall be prohibited at points other than existing median breaks. However, for sites which cannot achieve direct access through an existing median break or other existing road access points, temporary access may be permitted provided that the applicant's site access plan provides certain means, schedules and commitments to terminate such access at such time as an alternative access at an existing median break can be provided.

  • More restrictive standard applies

    Where the standards of the overlay district and the underlying district(s) differ, the more restrictive standard shall apply.

From the ordinance

The minimum front building setback for all lots lying in the US Route 360 Overlay District shall be 100 feet.
Article XXIV, § 325-24.4