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Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

R-2

ResidentialAll Amherst County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

R-2 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1.41 ac
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.
61,500 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1.41 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

From the ordinance

| (with public water and on-site sewerage systems) | 61,500 | 7,500 | 110 |
801.01. Residential Uses.