Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 83-480

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Building entrance features

    Buildings shall have clearly defined, highly visible customer entrances featuring at least three of the following features: canopies, roof overhangs, entry recesses, arcades, raised corniced parapets, gabled roof forms, outdoor patios, display windows, or integral planters.

  • Facade massing elements

    Buildings shall incorporate two or more of the following elements on each street-facing facade: variations in roof form, pronounced wall offsets, distinct changes in texture/color, ground level arcades, protected entries, vertical accents.

  • Pedestrian circulation required

    To the maximum extent practicable, there shall be pedestrian circulation from the perimeter of the site to the primary customer entrances to all buildings.

Parking

  • Maximum surface parking in front (non-VC)60 pct

    Except in Village Center (VC) and Village Center Planned Development (VC-PD) Districts, up to 60 percent of the total off-street surface parking provided may be located between the front facade of the building and the street it faces.

  • Maximum surface parking in front (VC)30 pct

    In Village Center (VC) and Village Center Planned Development (VC-PD) Districts, up to 30 percent of the total off-street surface parking provided may be located between the front facade of the building and the street it faces.

From the ordinance

A single-tenant building in any district that has a gross floor area of 60,000 square feet or more and devotes 60 percent or more of the total floor area to retail sales activities ('large retail buildings') shall comply with the general institutional, commercial, and mixed-use development standards in section 83-477(c) through section 83-477(l) above and the standards in this subsection.
Sec. 83-480