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Isle Of Wight County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

I-3

General Industrial Conservation
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Dimensional standards

I-3 lot requirementsSTREETFront 35 ftRear 20 ftSide 20 ftMin width 100 ftMIN LOT AREA20,000 sq ftMAX HEIGHT75 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.
20,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.46 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.
35 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 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.
75 ft

Uses

Permitted by right40

Conditional / special use23

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Building separation for structures over 35 feet30 ft

    Where structures exceed the thirty-five-foot height requirement a building separation of thirty (30) feet shall be required.

  • Side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase for structures over 35 feet1 ft per ft over 35

    The side and rear yard setbacks for any structure in excess of thirty-five (35) feet in height shall be increased one (1) foot for each additional foot of structure height over thirty-five (35) feet.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for industrial uses adjacent to residential subdivisions100 ft

    For parcels directly adjacent to an existing residential subdivision of at least five (5) lots recorded on the same plat as of July 1, 2025, the minimum setback for new industrial uses consisting of one (1) building shall be one hundred (100) feet and two hundred (200) feet for industrial uses with two (2) or more buildings...

  • Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for industrial uses from street right-of-way100 ft

    Industrial uses shall meet a setback of one hundred (100) feet from the right-of-way of any existing street which abuts or borders the use, except that uses located within a designated industrial park of twenty (20) acres or more shall meet a setback of fifty (50) feet from any street right-of-way.

From the ordinance

Minimum lot area: Twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Maximum height: Seventy-five (75) feet. Front yard: Thirty-five (35) feet. Side yard: Twenty (20) feet. Rear yard: Twenty (20) feet.
Sec. 4-13001 through 4-13006