Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
A-10
Agricultural-10 District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right30
- Animal production (other than an animal confinement facility)
- Crop production
- Dairy (other than an animal confinement facility)
- Forestry and logging
- Greenhouse, nursery, and floriculture production
- Agricultural support (direct)
- Agricultural support (indirect)
- Farm winery
- Horse boarding and equestrian training
- Dwelling, manufactured home
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Telecommunications facility, collocated
- Library
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Public school
- Courthouse facility
- Fire or EMS station
- Government administrative offices
- Government maintenance, storage, or distribution facility
- Law enforcement facility
- Post office
- Community garden
- Park or greenway
- Place of worship
- Utility use, minor
- Kennel, private, two acres or more
- Marina, noncommercial
- Recreation facility, public
- Taxidermy shop
Conditional / special use59
- Farm winery, special impact
- Horse racetrack or show grounds
- Livestock market
- Sawmill, commercial
- Farm worker housing
- Manufactured home park
- Assisted living facility
- Continuing care retirement community
- Hospice facility
- Rooming or boarding house
- Telecommunications tower
- Community center
- Museum
- College or university
- Private school
- Vocational or trade school
- Correctional facility
- Fire training facility
- Nursing home
- Cemetery
- Club or lodge
- Halfway house
- Shelter for victims of domestic violence
- Airport
- Helicopter landing facility
- Utility use, major
- Animal grooming
- Animal shelter
- Pound
- Kennel, commercial
- Kennel, private, less than two acres
- Veterinary clinic
- Conference or training center
- Country club
- Fairground
- Golf course
- Marina, commercial
- Recreation facility, commercial indoor
- Recreation facility, commercial outdoor
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Shooting range, commercial
- Rural event venue
- Antique store
- Art gallery
- Auction facility
- Farmers' market
- Flea market
- Campground/recreational vehicle park
- Country inn
- Commercial landscaping operation
- Asphalt or concrete plant
- Brewery or distillery
- Microbrewery or micro-distillery
- Winery
- Convenience center, county
- Heavy vehicle/equipment repair and servicing
- Wood and stump recycling business
- Contractor's storage yard
- Minor meat processing
Accessory32
- Accessory apartment
- Accessory dwelling unit (detached), up to 50 percent of square footage of the main dwelling
- Airstrip
- Amateur radio antenna
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Clubhouse
- Eating establishment (as accessory to an agricultural use)
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 1 or 2 charging station
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 3 charging station
- Family day care home
- Fuel oil or bottled gas distribution or storage, limited
- Home garden
- Home occupation
- Home-based landscaping business
- Kennel, private
- Office (as accessory to P multifamily dwelling or commercial use)
- Open space, park, playground, or recreational facility
- Outdoor storage (as an accessory use)
- Parking or storage of major recreational equipment on residential lots
- Parking or storage of large vehicles
- Rainwater cistern
- Residential care facility
- Private recycling bins
- Retail sales (as accessory to an agricultural use)
- Roadside stand
- Satellite dish
- Shipping containers as storage
- Shooting range, non-commercial
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Swimming pool, spa, or hot tub
- Television or radio antenna
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures (other than those housing animals)10 ft
Ten ft. for accessory structures (other than those housing animals).
- Maximum ADUAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. size as percentage of main dwelling50 pct
Accessory dwelling unit (detached), up to 50 percent of square footage of the main dwelling.
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for structures housing animals40 ft
Forty ft. for principal structures, accessory dwelling units, or accessory structures housing animals.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for structures housing animals25 ft
Twenty-five ft. for principal structures, accessory dwelling units, or accessory structures housing animals.
- Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. for farm and accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures5 pct
Five percent for farm structures and accessory structures.
Thirty-five ft. for flag lots.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Agricultural-10 (A-10) District is to maintain the agrarian and low-density rural character of the county that optimizes economic use of the county's prime farmland and forest land resources.