Land use · Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia

Truck stop

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

1: Standards for Specific Principal Uses and Structures, of Article VII: Use Standards.) ** Truck stop ** means any building or lot where the maintenance, servicing, storage or repair of commercial vehicles is conducted or rendered including the

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service establishment; 8. Amusement park; 9. Motorsports park; 10. Shooting range, commercial; 11. Truck stop ; 12. Truck hauler business; 13. Fuel oil or bottled gas distribution or storage; 14. Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, heavy; 15. Junkyard/salvage

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storage standards in section 83-438(p), Outdoor storage (as an accessory use). ### g. Truck stop A truck stop shall meet the standards applicable to a gas station (subsection (e)(8)d., above) except that gasoline pump canopies shall

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Taxi or limousine service facility | 1 per 300 s.f. | | | Truck stop | 1 per 200 s.f. + 1 truck space per 10,000 s.f. of site area | | | Truck hauler business

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Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use2

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.