Land use · Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia

agriculture and forestry operations

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

**702.02. Permitted uses.** Within the A-1 district, the following uses are permitted: 1. Agriculture and forestry operations ; crop production, livestock production, except no confinement facility may be closer than six hundred (600) feet to a property line; sale

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.