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Roanoke, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 36.2-409.1(e)

All Roanoke districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETSide 24 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.
24 ft

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Side addition setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from front face24 in

    An addition to the side of a dwelling shall be set back from the dwelling's front face by twenty-four (24) inches or more.

  • Max facade width as % of block average120 pct

    Each façade within the primary front yard shall not exceed one hundred twenty (120) percent of the average widths of other dwellings on the same side of the same block.

  • Min separation between facades20 ft

    Such façades shall be separated by at least twenty (20) feet.

  • Min window/door openings on primary facades15 pct

    Window and door openings shall constitute at least fifteen (15) percent of the primary façades

  • Min window/door openings on secondary facade (corner lot)10 pct

    and at least ten (10) percent of a secondary façade on a corner lot.

From the ordinance

Each façade within the primary front yard shall not exceed one hundred twenty (120) percent of the average widths of other dwellings on the same side of the same block. Such façades shall be separated by at least twenty (20) feet.
Sec. 36.2-409.1(e)