Sec. 83-170, 83-171, 83-172, 83-173
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Animal confinement facility
- Animal production (other than an animal confinement facility)
- Crop production
- Dairy (other than an animal confinement facility)
- Forestry and logging
- Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production
- Agricultural support (direct)
- Agricultural support (indirect)
- Farm winery
- Horse boarding and equestrian training
- Horse racetrack or show grounds
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Fire or EMS station
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Utility use, minor
- Marina, noncommercial
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Farmers' market
Conditional / special use13
Accessory25
- Accessory apartment
- Airstrip
- Amateur radio antenna
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 1 or 2 charging station
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 3 charging station
- Family day care home
- Home garden
- Home occupation
- Kennel, private
- Office (as accessory to P multifamily dwelling or commercial use)
- Open space, park, playground, or recreational facility
- Outdoor storage (as an accessory use)
- Parking or storage of major recreational equipment on residential lots
- Parking or storage of large vehicles
- Rainwater cistern
- Residential care facility
- Private recycling bins
- Roadside stand
- Satellite dish
- Shipping containers as storage
- Shooting range, non-commercial
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Swimming pool, spa, or hot tub
- Television or radio antenna
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Nutrient management plan required
No animal confinement facility shall be allowed under this chapter unless and until the appropriate state agency has approved a nutrient management plan and a General Virginia Pollution Abatement Permit.
- Perimeter buffer for animal confinement facilities abutting developed lots
Animal containment facilities located on parcels that abut developed lot(s) containing residential, institutional, commercial, or industrial uses shall provide a perimeter buffer in accordance with the perimeter buffers provisions of section 83-461, Landscaping and buffers.
- Waste storage capacity4 months
Have the capacity to store 100 percent of the wastes produced by the facility during the four consecutive months in which the maximum volume of wastes is produced by the facility.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Agricultural/Animal Confinement (A-C) District is to accommodate intensive agricultural operations involving the keeping or raising of livestock, dairy cattle, swine, and poultry in confined areas or facilities.