Land use · Albemarle County, Virginia

Multiple-family dwellings such as garden apartments

Named in 3 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 Albemarle County’s own text settles what this covers.

for detached single-family dwellings except for side yards at the common wall. 3. Multiple-family dwellings such as garden apartments . 4. Cluster development of permitted residential uses. 5. Rental of permitted residential uses and guest cottages; provided that yard, area and

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right3

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.