Land use · Amherst County Unincorporated, Virginia

church

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.

or industrial structure and to an existing institutional facility such as schools, hospitals, churches and clubs where the addition is less than twenty (20) percent of the square footage of the existing structure; 2. A

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and meals are delivered to another location for consumption. **Cemetery.** A privately or church owned and/or operated place for burial of the dead where lots may be sold and perpetual care of the graves is

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space for each bedroom | | **2. Public Assembly:** | | | a. Churches and other places of worship | One (1) space for each four (4) seats in the main auditorium or sanctuary |

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six hundred (600) feet from a public place such as a school or church ; c. Located more than six hundred (600) feet or if the facility is enclosed and under roof one hundred (100) feet

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feet of any residential lot or any property containing a school, public playground, church , hospital, public library or institution for children or dependents. **902.03. Site requirements.** An automobile service station shall have a minimum frontage

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.