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Petersburg, Virginia · District

MXD-3

MXD-3 Mixed Use District
Mixed useAll Petersburg districts0

Dimensional standards

MXD-3 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10 ac
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.)

Housing

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

Uses

Permitted by right4

Conditional / special use1

  • any other non-residential, non-objectionable use (subject to special use permit)

Accessory3

Prohibited1

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The MXD-3 Mixed Use District shall consist of parcels with a minimum of ten (10) contiguous acres.
Article 18.3, Section 1