Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-240
Commerce CenterAll Powhatan County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right83
- Forestry and logging
- Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production
- Dwelling, live/work
- Assisted living facility
- Hospice facility
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Community center
- Library
- Museum
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Private school
- Vocational or trade school
- Courthouse facility
- Government administrative offices
- Government maintenance, storage, or distribution facility
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Massage clinic
- Medical or dental clinic
- Medical or dental lab
- Medical treatment facility
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Club or lodge
- Place of worship
- Surface transportation passenger station/terminal
- Utility use, minor
- Animal grooming
- Veterinary clinic
- Business service establishment
- Bar or lounge
- Brewpub
- Micro-distillery
- Nightclub
- Restaurant with drive-through service
- Restaurant without drive-through service
- Specialty eating or drinking establishment
- Contractor's office
- Professional offices
- Other office facility
- Auditorium or stage theater
- Motion picture theater
- Recreation facility, commercial indoor
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Antique store
- Art gallery
- Arts, crafts, music, dance, photography, or martial arts studio/school
- Auction facility
- Bank or financial institution with drive-through service
- Bank or financial institution without drive-through service
- Check cashing establishment
- Convenience store
- Drugstore or pharmacy with drive-through service
- Drugstore or pharmacy without drive-through service
- Farmers' market
- Funeral home
- Grocery store
- Large retail sales establishment
- Lawn care, pool, or pest control service
- Liquor store
- Personal services establishment
- Shopping center
- 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
- Parking lot or parking structure (as a principal use)
- Taxi or limousine service facility
- Tire sales and mounting
- Vehicle/equipment sales or rental
- Hotel or motel
- Convenience center, county
- Recycling drop-off center
- Conference or training center
- Fire or EMS station
- Shed sales, outdoor
- Artisan food and beverage production
Conditional / special use23
- Telecommunications tower
- College or university
- Hospital
- Cemetery
- Public square or plaza
- Civic center
- Utility use, major
- Adult book or video store
- Adult motion picture theater
- Animal shelter
- Pound
- Kennel, commercial
- Arena, stadium, or amphitheater
- Country club
- Marina, commercial
- Recreation facility, commercial outdoor
- Flea market
- Self-service storage facility
- Truck hauler business
- Commercial landscape operation
- Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, light
- Wood and stump recycling business
- Contractor's storage yard
Accessory23
- 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
- Home garden
- Office (as accessory to 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 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
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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. (50 ft)50 ft
Fifty ft. for accessory uses and parking lots.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Commerce Center (CC) District is to accommodate a wide range of retail, service, office, and institutional uses that provide goods and services serving the residents and businesses in the community at large...