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Loudoun County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

R-3

Single-Family Residential R-3 Legacy Zoning District
ResidentialSingle FamilyAll Loudoun County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

R-3 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA15,000 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.
15,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.34 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right2

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The R-3 Legacy Zoning District retains existing areas established to provide for existing moderate density single-family detached and attached residences on lots of 15,000 square feet or more in areas served by public water and sewer service.
Section 2.02.05.01