Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-380, 83-381, 83-382, 83-383
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Community center
- Library
- Museum
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Fire or EMS station
- Government administrative offices
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Massage clinic
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Utility use, major
- Utility use, minor
- Animal grooming
- Specialty eating or drinking establishment
- Professional offices
- Recreation facility, public
- Antique store
- Art gallery
- Art, crafts, music, dance, photography, or martial arts studio/school
- Farmers' market
- Personal services establishment
- Recycling drop-off center
Conditional / special use47
- Dwelling, live/work
- Telecommunications tower
- Vocational or trade school
- Government maintenance, storage, or distribution facility
- Hospital
- Medical or dental clinic
- Medical or dental lab
- Medical treatment facility
- Cemetery
- Public square or plaza
- Civic center
- Club or lodge
- Place of worship
- Animal shelter/pound
- Kennel, commercial
- Veterinary clinic
- Business service establishment
- Conference or training center
- Bar or lounge
- Brewpub
- Nightclub
- Contractor's office
- Marina, commercial
- Recreation facility, commercial indoor
- Recreation facility, commercial outdoor
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Drugstore or pharmacy with drive-through service
- Drugstore or pharmacy without drive-through service
- Flea market
- Funeral home
- Grocery store
- Large retail sales establishment
- Lawn care, pool or pest control service
- Liquor store
- Tattoo or body piercing establishment
- Taxidermy shop
- Other retail sales establishment
- Automotive painting or body shop
- Automotive repair and servicing
- Automotive wrecker service
- Car wash or auto detailing
- Gas station
- Taxi or limousine service facility
- Truck hauler business
- Vehicle/equipment sales or rental
- Commercial landscape operation
- Micro-distillery
Accessory20
- Amateur radio antenna
- Automatic teller machine (ATM)
- Canopy, nonresidential drive-through
- Clubhouse
- Crematories (as accessory to funeral home)
- 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 sales 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 C 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 General Commercial (C) District is to accommodate general commercial development on land previously zoned general commercial.