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Portsmouth, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 40.2-217(3)(n)

All Portsmouth districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaSide 4 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.

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

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

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to residential districts NR, GR, UR, UR-M, HR, HLO, HLB

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Boats, campers, RVs location

    Boats, campers, and recreational vehicles shall be parked or stored only to the side or rear of the dwelling they are associated with unless the width of the side yard is less than 11 feet.

  • Camper habitation limit12 hours

    It shall be unlawful for any person to park a camper-type trailer to be used for human habitation in any location in the city for a period longer than 12 hours.

  • Maximum days in front/side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.4 days per year

    No heavy truck, trailer, other major recreational equipment shall be parked or stored for longer than four days over any calendar year in any front yard or side yard immediately adjacent to a street, unless the width of the side yard is less than 11 feet.

  • Maximum vehicles per lot in certain districts1 vehicle

    Only one such vehicle described by this section shall be parked on a lot in the NR, GR, UR, UR-M, HR, HLO, or HLB zoning districts at any one time.

From the ordinance

No heavy truck, trailer, other major recreational equipment shall be parked or stored for longer than four days over any calendar year in any front yard or side yard immediately adjacent to a street, unless the width of the side yard is less than 11 feet. Only one such vehicle shall be parked on a lot in NR, GR, UR, UR-M, HR, HLO, or HLB districts.
Sec. 40.2-217(3)(n)