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Virginia Beach, Virginia · District

RT-1

RT-1 Resort Tourist District
OtherResort TouristAll Virginia Beach districts0

Dimensional standards

RT-1 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 5 ftSide 5 ftMin width 70 ftMIN LOT AREA14,000 sq ftMAX HEIGHT200 ftMAX DENSITY160 du/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.
14,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (0.32 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.
70 ft

Density

Maximum density
160 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
5 ft
SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
5 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
200 ft

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 right5

Conditional / special use5

Prohibited2

Extracted standards

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

Density

Height

Other

Parking

  • Off-site parking allowed

    Off-site parking facilities in connection with hotels and motels... may be permitted on zoning lots within the OR Oceanfront Resort District, RT-3 Resort Tourist District and the B-4 Mixed Use District...

Signage

From the ordinance

Minimum lot size: Fourteen thousand (14,000) square feet. Minimum lot width: Seventy (70) feet. Maximum height: One hundred (100) feet at the easternmost property line... not to exceed an overall maximum height of two hundred (200) feet.
Sec. 1500-1507