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Portsmouth, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 40.2-217(e)

All Portsmouth districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA3 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.
130,680 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (3 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Servicing

Geographic extent
Junkyard facilities

Extracted standards

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

Other

From the ordinance

The facility shall be located on a parcel with an area of at least three acres. The facility shall be not located within 50 feet of any lot line (except for a freestanding office). The facility shall be screened no less than eight feet in height.
Sec. 40.2-217(e)