Goochland County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 15, Sec. 15-231 to 15-234
NeighborhoodAll Goochland County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Adult day care center
- Financial institution; bank
- Government services
- Housing, ground level-temporary, operated by nonprofit group
- Office, professional; office, medical
- Personal services
- Repair services such as computers, home appliances, and television repair
- Restaurant, sit-down
- Retail trade establishment which serves the needs of the neighborhood
- Utility distribution facility, public, and all accompanying appurtenances and structures
Conditional / special use5
- Club; lodge
- Restaurant, drive-in/takeout
- Utility - gas transmission line, compressor station, measurement station, regulator station
- Utility generating station; transmission substation; transmission line, other than normal distribution facility
- Veterinary hospital
Prohibited2
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, or treatment of products
- Sale, repair, service, maintenance, or storage of motor vehicles and accessories
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
Accessory structure less than main building height.
- Parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Parapet walls may rise up to six feet above the finished roof surface.
Noise
- Public address system restrictions
No public address system, or devices for reproducing or amplifying voices or music, may be mounted outside or be audible beyond the property line on which the building is situated.
Other
- All goods kept within enclosed building
all articles for sale, rent, display, and storage are kept within an enclosed building.
- Outside display/storage prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No commercial or retail outside display or storage is permitted.
From the ordinance
This district is intended to provide a limited range of commercial uses needed to meet the daily convenience shopping and service needs of residents of a neighborhood or small community.