Stafford County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 28-145

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Servicing

Geographic extent
Countywide

Extracted standards

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

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  • In cases where a building is occupied by more than one residential unit, each separate front entrance shall be assigned a building number; no number shall be assigned to the building as a whole.

  • Building number interval20 ft

    numbers shall be assigned at a twenty-foot interval along the centerline of the road on which the property has direct vehicular access to.

  • Building number location

    If a building does not front on a road or is not visible from the road, then the number shall be posted at a walk, driveway, or the suitable location so that it is easily discernible from the road.

  • Building number parity

    Odd numbers shall be assigned on the left side of a road, and even numbers to the right side of a road.

  • Building number style

    The number shall be Arabic numerals only.

  • Building number visibility

    The owner of a principal building shall post the building's assigned number in a manner so as to be visible and distinguishable from the road on which the building fronts.

  • Road name source

    Road names must be found in the Cambridge Dictionary.

  • Road name uniqueness

    Road names shall not duplicate or closely approximate road names already assigned.

  • Suite number requirement

    In cases where a building is occupied by more than one business, each separate office, commercial, or industrial space shall be designated by a suite number or similar designation.

From the ordinance

The owner of a principal building shall post the building's assigned number in a manner so as to be visible and distinguishable from the road on which the building fronts.
Sec. 28-145