Land use · Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia

Biomass conversion, small-scale

Named in 2 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.

How this ordinance defines it

The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Essex County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 10Reads like a definition

crop residues; straws; aquatic plants; and crops and trees planted for energy production. ** Biomass conversion, small-scale ** means the conversion of any renewable biomass, including, but not limited to, trees and tree residue-chips into heat, power, or biofuels

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Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use2

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.