                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ORDINANCES REGULATING THE BUILDING OF HOUSES AND ESTABLISHING SETBACK LINES (§
15.2-2279)

Any locality may by ordinance regulate the building of houses in the locality
including the adoption of off-street parking requirements, minimum setbacks and
side yards and the establishment of minimum lot sizes.
		Any locality may by ordinance require that no building be constructed within
thirty-five feet of any street or roadway and may provide for exceptions to such
requirement whenever a large portion of existing buildings along a section of
street or roadway is within thirty-five feet of such street or roadway. The
provisions of such an ordinance shall not apply within the limits of any town
which has enacted a zoning ordinance or has adopted an ordinance establishing
minimum setbacks.

HISTORY: 1970, c. 452, § 15.1-29.2; 1987, c. 399; 1997, c. 587.