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.