Land use · Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia

Junkyard/salvage yard

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

Chapter 11Reads like a definition

in accordance with Article II: Administration, or Powhatan County Code, chapter 68 (Subdivisions). ** Junkyard/salvage yard ** means an establishment where junk, waste, discarded, salvaged, or similar materials such as old metals, wood, slush, lumber, glass, paper, rags,

Read it in the chapter →

or bottled gas distribution or storage; 14. Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, heavy; 15. Junkyard/salvage yard ; 16. Child day care center; 17. Minor meat processing; 18. Solar energy farm. (Ord. No. O-2013-14, 2-3-14; Ord. No. O-2022-20, 5-23-22;

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Spaces | Use | Minimum Number of Off-Street Parking Spaces | |---|---| | Junkyard/salvage yard | See section 83-455(d)(2) | | Land clearing debris disposal facility | See section 83-455(d)(2) | | Resource recovery facility |

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.

Conditional / special use1

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.