§ 98-213. Uses permitted by conditional use permit only.

In the A-1, agricultural district, all conditional uses shall require an approved site plan. Structures to be erected or land to be used for one or more of the following uses shall be permitted only after the issuance of a conditional use permit by the board of supervisors or its agent:

(1)

Airports.

(2)

Antique shops.

(3)

Bed and breakfast/home stay establishments.

(4)

Campgrounds.

(5)

Cemeteries (with sale of lots).

(6)

Childcare centers.

(7)

Community centers.

(8)

Construction business, with storage of equipment, as a home occupation.

(9)

Distillation of ethanol from grain.

(10)

Equestrian show facility.

(11)

General store. Any retail establishment offering for sale items of a general mercantile nature including food and beverage products, household and hardware items. Such store shall not have underground tanks or pumps for dispensing fuel for on-road vehicles. Such store shall be restricted to 3,000 square feet or less of retail sales floor. Such establishment shall be restricted to existing structures with historical general mercantile use. The term shall not include truck stops, nor shall it be used for any activity commonly associated with truck stops such as storing, maintaining or parking trucks and other commercial vehicles overnight.

(12)

Group care facilities.

(13)

Helistops.

(14)

Horse racing facility.

(15)

Kennels.

(16)

Marinas.

(17)

Mining, excavation or filling, borrow pits, extraction, processing and removal of land, gravel and stripping of topsoil (but farm pond construction, field leveling or stripping of sod for agricultural purposes and excavations in connection with development which has received subdivision or site plan approval are permitted generally and without a conditional use permit).

(18)

Mobile home as storage shed in conjunction with a bona fide agricultural operation.

(19)

Paint pellet competitive games.

(20)

Permanent mobile homes that do not meet the definition of manufactured housing under Code of Virginia, § 15.2-2290, on 25 acres or more.

(21)

Pistol ranges.

(22)

Portable sawmills.

(23)

Private clubs or hunt clubs with an approved site plan, provided that in order to maintain a tranquil environment for those residential uses within the A-1 zoning district, hunt clubs shall be located at least 250 feet from a property line of a residential use.

(24)

Private schools with approved site plan.

(25)

Public or private electrical generation facilities, electrical substations with a capacity of 5,000 kilovolt amperes or more, and electrical transmission lines capable of transmitting 69 kilovolts or more.

(26)

Public or private transmission pipelines, including pumping stations and accessory storage for natural gas, propane gas, petroleum products, chemicals, slurry coal and any other gases, liquids or solids, except that private connections to existing pipelines, which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and without a conditional use permit.

(27)

Public or private water and sewer facilities including, but not limited to, treatment plants, pumping stations, storage facilities and transmission mains, except that private connections to existing mains which are intended to serve an individual residential or commercial customer and which are accessory to existing or proposed development, are permitted generally and without a conditional use permit.

(28)

Radio, television or communication stations and/or towers which exceed 50 feet in height.

(29)

Railroad facilities including tracks, bridges, switching yards and stations, except that spur lines which are to serve and are accessory to existing or proposed development adjacent to existing railroad rights-of-way, and track and safety improvements in existing railroad rights-of-way, are permitted generally and without a conditional use permit.

(30)

Single-family conversion to two-family.

(31)

Sporting clays.

(32)

Steeplechase.

(33)

Temporary storage of a mobile home.

(34)

Turkey shoots.

(35)

Veterinary clinics.

(36)

Water impoundments for public or private use of 50 acres or more and a dam height of 25 feet or more.

(37)

Zoological gardens.

(Code 1999, § 9-83; Ord. No. O-7-99, 9-13-1999; Ord. No. O-01-07, § D, 1-16-2007)

(Code 1999, § 9-83; Ord. No. O-7-99, 9-13-1999; Ord. No. O-01-07, § D, 1-16-2007)