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Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

R-1

ResidentialAll Amherst County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

R-1 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 75 ftMIN LOT AREA25,000 sq 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 areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
25,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.57 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

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

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

From the ordinance

| (with non-public water and on-site sewerage systems) | 25,000 | 75 |
801.01. Residential Uses.