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Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

R-2

Residential District
ResidentialMulti FamilyAll Botetourt County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

R-2 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 35 ftRear 25 ftSide 10 ftMin width 80 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 widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
80 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.
25 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
10 ft
Side, combinedSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
25 ft

Uses

Permitted by right1

Accessory3

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

In the R-2 district, buildings shall be located thirty-five (35) feet or more from any street right-of-way which is fifty (50) feet or greater in width, or sixty (60) feet or more from the center line of any street right-of-way less than fifty (50) feet in width. ... for single-family dwellings, the minimum lot width at the setback line shall be eighty (80) feet or more, and for two-family dwellings, the minimum lot width at the setback line shall be one hundred (100) feet or more. ... The minimum side yard shall be ten (10) feet and the total width of the two (2) required side yards shall be twenty-five (25) feet or more. Each main building shall have a rear yard of twenty-five (25) feet or more.
Sec. 25-39(4)