Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-190, 83-191, 83-192, 83-193
Dimensional standards
Lot
Housing
Servicing
- Applies within
- 2,640 ft
- Geographic extent
- Crossroads communities are small collections of five to eight buildings or uses loosely clustered around road or road/railroad intersections (within approximately ½ mile of the intersection).
Uses
Permitted by right41
- Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production
- Agricultural support (indirect)
- Farm winery
- Dwelling, live/work
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Community center
- Library
- Museum
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Public school
- Fire or EMS station
- Government administrative offices
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Medical or dental clinic
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Utility use, minor
- Animal grooming
- Brewpub
- Restaurant without drive-through service (less than or equal to 3,500 square feet in area)
- Specialty eating or drinking establishment (less than or equal to 3,500 square feet in area)
- Professional offices
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Antique store
- Auction facility
- Art gallery
- Arts, craft, music, dance, photography, or martial arts studio/school
- Farmers' market
- Lawn care, pool, or pest control service
- Personal services establishment
- Taxidermy shop
- Country inn
- Brewery or distillery
- Micro-brewery
- Micro-distillery
- Artisan food and beverage production
- Winery
Conditional / special use23
- Horse boarding and equestrian training
- Livestock market
- Private school
- Vocational or trade school
- Cemetery
- Place of worship
- Surface transportation passenger station/terminal
- Animal shelter
- Pound
- Kennel, commercial
- Veterinary clinic
- Conference or training center
- Rural event venue
- Restaurant without drive-through service (greater than 3,500 square feet in area)
- Specialty eating or drinking establishment (greater than 3,500 square feet in area)
- Contractor's office
- Convenience store
- Other retail sales establishment
- Automotive painting or body shop
- Automotive repair and servicing
- Automotive wrecker service
- Gas station
- Tire sales and mounting
Accessory27
- Accessory apartment
- Amateur radio antenna
- Automatic teller machine (ATM)
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Canopy, nonresidential drive-through
- Clubhouse
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 1 or 2 charging station
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 3 charging station
- Family day care home
- Fuel oil or bottled gas distribution or storage, limited
- Home garden
- Home occupation
- Office (as accessory to P multifamily dwelling or commercial use)
- Open space, park, playground, or recreational facility
- Outdoor display and sale of merchandise
- 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
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Swimming pool, spa, or hot tub
- Television or radio antenna
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum density when served by community water or sewer1 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
One du/ac where served by community water or sewer service.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures (other than those housing animals)10 ft
Ten ft. for accessory structures (other than those housing animals).
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for structures housing animals40 ft
Forty ft. for principal or accessory structures housing animals.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for structures housing animals25 ft
Twenty-five ft. for principal or accessory structures housing animals.
Thirty-five ft. for flag lots.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. when served by community water or sewer43,560 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One ac where served by community water or sewer service.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Crossroads (CR) District is to preserve and enhance the small historic crossroads communities that are the primary service areas for the county's farmers and rural residents and help define the character of the county's rural areas.