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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

A-10

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Dimensional standards

A-10 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 acMIN OPEN SPACE85%
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.
435,600 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (10 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Height & bulk

Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
85%

Housing

Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
by_right
Two-family
prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Three-family
prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Four-plus family
prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.

Parking

Minimum spacesMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open.
4

Servicing

Geographic extent
Rural hamlet development option in A-10 districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.

Uses

Permitted by right7

Conditional / special use8

Accessory2

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Fire protection

    Every hamlet must satisfy fire protection standards set forth in the Facilities Standards Manual, or have all weather access road for pump truck to adequate pond or water tank.

  • Hamlet building area depth

    Maximum outside boundaries of building areas of hamlet lots facing across a road is 300 feet; across a hamlet green/square is 350 feet; across a hamlet green/square is 550 feet.

  • Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.85 pct

    The minimum amount of land in a Rural Hamlet devoted to open space and subject to permanent open space easements must be greater than 85% of the total land area in the Rural Hamlet.

  • Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. width

    A minimum width of land in open space surrounding a hamlet: 200 feet between outside boundary of hamlet lot building areas and tract boundary; 800 feet between building area boundaries of two hamlets on same tract.

  • Road access

    Access to hamlet lots: 7 or less may be served by private road; 25 or less may be served by VDOT fixed generation tertiary Class II road; all other roads must be VDOT Class II roads; roads serving 2+ hamlets with >250 vehicles/day generally need 2 access points.

  • Wastewater

    Hamlet lots must be served by individual septic tank drainfields, community wastewater system, municipal wastewater if designated, or connection with existing rural village/hamlet/public wastewater treatment system.

  • Water supply

    Hamlet lots must be served by individual wells, community water supply system, municipal water supply if designated, or connection with existing rural village/hamlet/public water system.

Parking

  • Parking per hamlet lot4 cars

    Every hamlet lot must include sufficient parking to accommodate 4 cars.

From the ordinance

The minimum amount of land in a Rural Hamlet devoted to open space and subject to permanent open space easements must be greater than 85% of the total land area in the Rural Hamlet.
Section 7.10

Parking requirements

{
  "hamlet_lot": "4 cars"
}