Land use · Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia

Correctional facility

Named in 1 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 Powhatan County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 11Reads like a definition

1: Standards for Specific Principal Uses and Structures, of Article VII: Use Standards.) ** Correctional facility ** means a publicly or privately operated facility for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons awaiting trial or convicted

Read it in the chapter →

14. College or university; 15. Private school; 16. Vocational or trade school; 17. Correctional facility ; 18. Fire training facility; 19. Nursing home; 20. Cemetery; 21. Club or lodge; 22. Halfway house; 23. Shelter for victims of

Read it in the chapter →

| 8 per classroom | | **Government Uses** | | | | | Correctional facility | See section 83-455(d)(2) | | | Courthouse facility | 1 per 300 s.f. | | | Fire or EMS station

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use1

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.