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Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 32-250.74

All Prince William County Unincorporated districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA1 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.
43,560 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (1 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Public water availability distance2,500 ft

    public water shall be deemed available if located within 2,500 feet of the site

  • Public water connection required when available

    connection to the public water system shall be required for development of newly created lots for residential uses in the urban or suburban areas

From the ordinance

When available to the site, connection to the public water system shall be required for development of newly created lots for residential uses in the urban or suburban areas... Minimum lot size for any lot not served by public water facilities shall be one acre.
Sec. 32-250.74