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Warren County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

§ 180-30.1

Poultry AbattoirAll Warren County Unincorporated districts0

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.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
871,200 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (20 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right1

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Maximum birds per year1,000 birds

    An exempt poultry operation initiated after the enactment of this section which exceeds the slaughtering of more than 1,000 animals per calendar year shall constitute a violation of this chapter.

  • Minimum parcel size20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

    All exempt poultry abattoir operations shall be on a parcel of 20 acres or more under single ownership.

  • Nutrient management plan required

    An exempt poultry abattoir property owner shall file with the Zoning Administrator a nutrient management form containing the following information, prior to obtaining a certificate of zoning and/or a building/agricultural permit.

  • Only one abattoir structure1 structure

    There shall be no more than one structure for use as a poultry abattoir on the property.

  • SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. (see table)

    Structures used for an exempt poultry abattoir operation shall be located no closer than: [table omitted]

  • Site plan required

    Each application for an exempt poultry abattoir shall be accompanied by a site plan of the entire parcel, with location of proposed facility drawn to scale and in sufficient detail to show that the proposed abattoir operation meets all applicable setback requirements.

  • Annual well water testing for e-coli and coliform

    The property owner shall have their well water tested annually for e-coli and coliform bacteria, and a copy of the results shall be submitted to the Planning and Health Departments.

From the ordinance

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, an exempt poultry operation initiated after the enactment of this section which exceeds the slaughtering of more than 1,000 animals per calendar year shall constitute a violation of this chapter.
§ 180-30.1