Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-2
Single-family Residential-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
- Maximum density
- 4 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
- Lot area per dwelling unitLot area per dwelling unitLand required for each home — the same limit as du/acre, expressed per unit instead of per acre.
- 87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right9
Conditional / special use18
- Dwelling, multifamily
- Assisted living facility
- Rooming or boarding house
- Community center
- Library
- Adult day care center
- Child day care center
- Private school
- Vocational or trade school
- Public square or plaza
- Halfway house
- Place of worship
- Shelter for victims of domestic abuse
- Country club
- Golf course
- Marina, noncommercial
- Recreation facility, nonprofit
- Recreation facility, public
Accessory21
- Accessory apartment
- Amateur radio antenna
- Electric vehicle (EV) level 1 or 2 charging station
- Family day care home
- Home garden
- Home occupation
- Kennel, private (see section 83-438(n))
- Open space, park, playground, or recreational facility
- Parking or storage of major recreational equipment on residential lots
- Private garage
- Parking or storage of large vehicles (see section 83-438(r))
- Rainwater cistern
- Residential care facility
- Private recycling bins
- Satellite dish
- Small wind energy system
- Solar energy collection system
- Storage shed for lawn and garden tools
- Swimming pool, spa, or hot tub
- Television or radio antenna
- Accessory dwelling unit (detached), up to 35 percent of square footage of the main dwelling
Extracted standards
5 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).
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for structures housing animals40 ft
Forty ft. for principal or accessory structures housing animals.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for structures housing animals25 ft
Twenty-five ft. for principal or accessory structures housing animals.
Thirty-five ft. for flag lots.
- Maximum horses/ponies per lot3 count
On a lot of three acres or more, not more than one horse or pony may be housed and maintained; for each additional acre in excess of three acres, one additional horse or one additional pony may be housed and maintained with the maximum not to exceed three.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Single-family Residential-2 (R-2) District is to accommodate low-density, semi-suburban residential developments at the edges of village growth areas... lots of two or more acres (or the equivalent density).