Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-220
Mixed ResidentialAll Powhatan County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right14
- Dwelling, duplex
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Dwelling, three- or four-family
- Dwelling, townhouse
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Private school
- Public school
- Law enforcement facility
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Public square or plaza
- Utility use, minor
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
Conditional / special use15
- Assisted living facility
- Continuing care retirement community
- Hospice facility
- Rooming or boarding house
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Vocational or trade school
- Fire or EMS station
- Nursing home
- Halfway house
- Place of worship
- Shelter for victims of domestic abuse
- Utility use, major
- Country club
- Micro-distillery
Accessory19
- Accessory apartment
- 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
- 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
- Satellite dish
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Swimming pool, spa, or hot tub
- Television or radio antenna
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lot
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.1,800 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
individual townhouse lots have a minimum lot size of 1,800 s.f.
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.18 ft
minimum lot width of 18 ft.
Other
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (10 ft)10 ft
Ten ft. for accessory uses and parking lots.
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (20 ft)20 ft
Twenty ft. for accessory uses and parking lots.
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (35 ft)35 ft
Thirty-five ft. for accessory uses and parking lots.
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (3 ft)3 ft
Three ft. for accessory uses and structures.
- Accessory useAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (50 ft)50 ft
Fifty ft. for accessory uses and parking lots.
- Front-loading garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from front facade5 ft
Any front-loading garage shall be set back at least 5 ft. to the rear of the dwelling's front facade.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Village Residential (VR) District is to accommodate moderate-density residential development of walkable neighborhoods that include single-family detached, duplex, and townhouse dwellings, as well as small (1- to 4-unit) multifamily dwellings...