Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-220
Dimensional standards
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus 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
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Front-loading garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Any front-loading garage shall be set back at least 5 ft. to the rear of the dwelling's front facade.
Other
- Temporary uses
Permitted temporary uses: garage or yard sale, model sales home/unit, post-disaster temporary dwelling, temporary construction-related structure or facility, temporary family health care structure. With temporary business permit: estate sale/auction.
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 that look like large single-family homes.