Amherst County Unincorporated
Zoning districts
9 districts, grouped by category.
Agricultural
1Residential
3General provisions
191 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.
One (1) or more persons occupying a single dwelling unit, provided that unless all members are related by blood or marriage no such family shall contain more than five (5) persons
A child day program offered in the residence of the provider ... for one (1) through twelve (12) children under the age of thirteen (13)
An establishment of no more than two thousand (2,000) square feet in size
A facility consisting of three (3) or more dwelling units, the occupancy of which is limited to senior citizens.
A sawmill located on private property for a period not to exceed six (6) months
located on a parcel of land ten (10) or more acres in size
located on less than a ten-acre parcel of land
is less than six (6) feet in height
This includes "V" shaped signs with an angle of separation less than forty-five (45) degrees.
Any temporary family health care structures ... shall be deemed a permitted accessory use in any single-family residential zoning district on lots zoned for single-family detached dwellings.
An area not to exceed five (5) acres
A residential unit in a series of from three (3) to twelve (12) single-family attached dwellings
which is not eight (8) feet or more in body width and is not forty (40) feet or more in body length
with adequate parking, maneuvering and access for at least three (3) combination tractor-trailer vehicles
has a maximum power of at most fifty (50) kW
The following uses shall be prohibited within the Watershed District (WS): ... Production or disposal of hazardous waste ...
The watershed areas within the county are hereby divided into two types of districts: Primary Water Supply Districts (PWS) and Secondary Water Supply Districts (SWS).
Land uses within a MU/TND District shall be permitted either by right (P) or by special exception (SE), or are prohibited (X) as follows: ...
The Special Floodplain District (SFD) shall be those areas identified as an AE Zone on the maps accompanying the FIS for which one (1) percent annual chance flood elevations have been provided and the floodway has not been delineated.
The Approximated Flood Plain District (AFP) shall be that floodplain area for which no detailed flood profiles or elevations are provided, but where a one hundred (100) year floodplain boundary has been approximated on the FIRMs.
Source documents
The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.
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- Chapter 1271.4K charsRead →
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- Chapter 1433.8K charsRead →
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- Chapter 26.5K charsRead →
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- Chapter 419.3K charsRead →
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- Chapter 643.3K charsRead →
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