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Henrico County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

O-1

Office District
CommercialOfficeAll Henrico County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

O-1 lot requirementsSTREETFront 40 ftRear 40 ftSide 20 ftMin width 100 ftMIN LOT AREA16,000 sq ftMAX HEIGHT45 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.
16,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.37 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.
40 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
40 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.
45 ft

Uses

Permitted by right6

Extracted standards

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

Setback

From the ordinance

The purpose of the O-1 Office District is to provide lands primarily for offices and office buildings that are generally compatible with low-density residential development.
Sec. 24-3404