Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-230
Dimensional standards
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right56
- Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production
- Dwelling, live/work
- Dwelling, upper-story
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Community center
- Library
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Private school
- Public school
- Vocational or trade school
- Courthouse facility
- Fire or EMS station
- Government administrative offices
- Government maintenance, storage, or distribution facility
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Massage clinic
- Medical or dental clinic
- Medical or dental lab
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Club or lodge
- Surface transportation passenger station/terminal
- Utility use, minor
- Animal grooming
- Veterinary clinic
- Business service establishment
- Bar or lounge
- Brewpub
- Artisan food and beverage production
- Micro-distillery
- Restaurant without drive-through service
- Specialty eating or drinking establishment
- Professional offices
- Other office facility
- Motion picture theater
- Recreation facility, commercial indoor
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Antique store
- Art gallery
- Art, crafts, music, dance, photography, or martial arts studio/school
- Bank or financial institution without drive-through service
- Convenience store
- Drugstore or pharmacy without drive-through service
- Farmers' market
- Funeral home
- Grocery store
- Liquor store
- Personal services establishment
- Taxidermy shop
- Other retail sales establishment
- Hotel or motel
- Recycling drop-off center
- Medical treatment facility
Conditional / special use19
- Dwelling, duplex
- Dwelling, multifamily
- Dwelling, three- or four-family
- Dwelling, townhouse
- Assisted living facility
- Continuing care retirement community
- Hospice facility
- Telecommunications tower
- Museum
- Hospital
- Nursing home
- Cemetery
- Public square or plaza
- Halfway house
- Homeless shelter
- Place of worship
- Shelter for victims of domestic abuse
- Utility use, major
- Parking lot or parking structure (as a principal use)
Accessory24
- Amateur radio antenna
- Automatic teller machine (ATM)
- Bed and breakfast inn
- 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
- Home occupation
- 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)
- 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
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Other
- Temporary uses
Permitted temporary uses: garage or yard sale, model sales home/unit, post-disaster temporary dwelling, temporary construction-related structure or facility. With temporary business permit: estate sale/auction, farmer's market, outdoor seasonal sales, temporary business.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Village Center (VC) District is to accommodate a mix of retail, office, service, and civic uses that address the needs of neighborhoods in the immediate vicinity (e.g., personal services uses, restaurants, banks, convenience stores, drugstores, grocery stores, libraries, places of worship, day care, schools), as well as moderate-density residential development that is mixed in with nonresidential uses, preferably in vertical mixed-use buildings with ground-level retail and office uses and upper-floor residential use.