Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-370, 83-371, 83-372, 83-373
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Library
- Museum
- Child day care center
- Government administrative offices
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Massage clinic
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Utility use, minor
- Animal grooming
- Professional offices
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Art, crafts, music, dance, photography, or martial arts studio/school
Conditional / special use21
- Dwelling, live/work
- Assisted living facility
- Continuing care retirement community
- Newspaper or magazine publishing
- Radio or television broadcast studio
- Telecommunications tower
- Adult day care center
- College or university
- Private school
- Vocational or trade school
- Government maintenance, storage, or distribution facility
- Medical or dental clinic
- Medical or dental lab
- Medical treatment facility
- Cemetery
- Public square or plaza
- Place of worship
- Utility use, major
- Business service establishment
- Brewpub
- Contractor's office
Accessory18
- Amateur radio antenna
- Automatic teller machine (ATM)
- Canopy, nonresidential drive-through
- 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
- Open space, park, playground, or recreational facility
- Outdoor display and sale of merchandise
- Outdoor storage (as an accessory use)
- Private recycling bins
- Rainwater cistern
- Residential care facility
- Satellite dish
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Swimming pool, spa, or hot tub
- Television or radio antenna
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lot
- FrontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. along public street
The lot shall also have frontage along a public street within the O district that equals or exceeds the minimum lot width standard.
- Minimum lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line. on cul-de-sacs50 ft
Fifty ft. on cul-de-sacs.
Setback
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for accessory usesAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office., structures, and parking lots50 ft
Fifty ft. for accessory uses and structures and parking lots.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Office (O) District is to accommodate professional office, administrative office, and limited institutional development.