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Front Royal, Virginia · District

A-1

Agriculture and Open Space Preservation District
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Dimensional standards

A-1 lot requirementsSTREETFront 100 ftRear 50 ftSide 50 ftMin frontage 150 ftMIN LOT AREA10 acMAX HEIGHT35 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE15%MAX FAR50MAX IMPERVIOUS30%
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.)
Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.
150 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.
100 ft
RearSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
50 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
35 ft
Maximum floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.
50
Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.
15%
Maximum impervious coverageImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios.
30%

Uses

Permitted by right11

Conditional / special use8

Accessory3

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area shall be ten (10) acres. Structures shall be located one hundred (100) feet or more from any public street right-of-way... maximum height shall be thirty-five (35) feet.
175-10.2 through 175-10.10