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Covington, Virginia · General provision

Article XVI, Section 3(3-6)

All Covington districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA10,000 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.
10,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

Servicing

Geographic extent
All districts

Extracted standards

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

Lighting

  • Lighting shielded from residential districts

    All lighting shall be shielded from adjacent residential districts.

Other

From the ordinance

The minimum lot area shall be 10,000 square feet, and so arranged that ample space is available for motor vehicles which are required to wait, except that automobile service stations intended solely for the sale of gasoline, oil and minor accessories and having no facilities for the repair or servicing of automobiles may be permitted on lots of less than 10,000 square feet, subject to all other provisions herein required.
Article XVI, Section 3(3-6)