Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-301
Planned DevelopmentAll Powhatan County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Density
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right89
- Forestry and logging
- Dwelling, duplex
- Dwelling, live/work
- Dwelling, multifamily
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Dwelling, three- or four-family
- Dwelling, townhouse
- Dwelling, upper-story
- Assisted living facility
- Continuing care retirement community
- Hospice facility
- Rooming or boarding house
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Telecommunications tower
- Community center
- Library
- Museum
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- College or university
- Private school
- Public school
- Vocational or trade school
- Courthouse facility
- Fire or EMS station
- Government administrative offices
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Hospital
- Massage clinic
- Medical or dental clinic
- Medical or dental lab
- Medical treatment facility
- Nursing home
- Cemetery
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Public square or plaza
- Civic center
- Club or lodge
- Place of worship
- Surface transportation passenger station/terminal
- Utility use, minor
- Animal grooming
- Kennel, commercial
- Veterinary clinic
- Business service establishment
- Conference or training center
- Bar or lounge
- Brewpub
- Artisan food and beverage production
- Micro-distillery
- Nightclub
- Restaurant with drive-through service
- Restaurant without drive-through service
- Specialty eating or drinking establishment
- Professional offices
- Other office facility
- Motion picture theater
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
- Antique store
- Art gallery
- Art, crafts, music, dance, photography, or martial arts studio/school
- Bank or financial institution with drive-through service
- Bank or financial institution without drive-through service
- 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
- Car wash or auto detailing
- Gas station
- Parking lot or parking structure (as a principal use)
- Tire sales and mounting
- Vehicle/equipment sales or rental
- Hotel or motel
- Recycling drop-off center
Accessory25
- Accessory apartment
- 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
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- Maximum density8 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
averaging four to eight dwelling units per acre for the district as a whole
From the ordinance
The following uses are allowable as principal uses in the VC-PD district, only if the planned development (PD) plan approved for the district expressly identifies the use type as allowed