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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

R-1

Single-Family Residential R-1 Legacy Zoning District
ResidentialSingle FamilyAll Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

R-1 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA40,000 sq 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.
40,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.92 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right1

Conditional / special use1

  • Major floodplain is not permitted to be included in calculating the amount of common open space.

From the ordinance

The R-1 Legacy Zoning District retains existing areas established to provide for existing low density single-family detached residences on lots of 40,000 square feet or more and should be limited to areas planned for and served by public water and sewer;
Section 2.02.05.01