Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 83-432(b)(3)a

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA20 ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Extracted standards

7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Animals must be confined in fully enclosed area

    Animals must be confined in a fully enclosed area within the building or in an accessory structure.

  • Maximum number of animals kept overnight10 animals

    No more than ten animals may be kept overnight.

  • All buildings and structures must be set back from all property lines a minimum of 500 feet.

  • No outdoor storage of products, materials, or machinery

    Materials may be stored within enclosed accessory buildings. No outdoor storage of products, materials, or machinery is permitted.

  • Perimeter buffer Type C required when within 1,000 ft of residential structure

    A perimeter buffer Type C as outlined in section 83-461(e) will be required with an adjacent parcel when the meat processing structure is located less than 1,000 feet from an abutting residential structure measured from the closest edge of these structures to each other. The buffer width at the property line shall be calculated to be 200 feet on either side of a line measuring the distance between the two structures at the point where the line intersects the property line.

  • All processing must occur in primary enclosed building

    All processing must occur in the primary building which must be an enclosed structure.

From the ordinance

All buildings and structures must be set back from all property lines a minimum of 500 feet. In the Agricultural 10 (A-10), Agricultural 20 (A-20) and Animal Confinement (AC) Districts, a minimum of 20 acres is required for a minor meat processing facility. A perimeter buffer Type C ... will be required with an adjacent parcel when the meat processing structure is located less than 1,000 feet from an abutting residential structure.
Sec. 83-432(b)(3)a