Land use · Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia

Farm winery

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.

to the Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2288.6, any activity carried out at a farm winery , farm brewery, farm distillery, or an agricultural operation, that allows members of the general public, for recreational, entertainment, or educational purposes,

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right2

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.