Amherst County Unincorporated

General convenience store. ... no more than four (4) gasoline and/or diesel fuel pumps shall be permitted

Boat. Any vehicle designed for travel on water, not exceeding thirty-five (35) feet in body length and nine (9) feet in width.

Bulk storage. Above-ground storage of liquid in excess of one thousand five hundred (1,500) gallons.

Confined livestock facility (CLF). A feed lot in which more than one hundred (100) animal livestock units are confined and fed.

Motor vehicle graveyard. Any lot, or place or part thereof, which is exposed to the weather and upon which more than three (3) used unlicensed motor vehicles are located.

Dwelling, recreational. A cabin or other similar unit used for hunting, fishing, camping, or similar temporary recreational activities and occupied less than 180 days a year and for a period not exceeding 30 consecutive days.

Dwelling, short-term tourist rental of. The rental for compensation of a dwelling for periods of less than thirty (30) consecutive days.

Flag lot. An individual lot which has a fee simple driveway strip ("pole") providing the primary entrance from a street to the buildable area ("flag"). Flag lots are only permitted in the A-1 Agricultural Residential District.

Development. A tract of land developed or to be developed as a unit under single ownership of unified control which is to be used for any business or industrial purpose, or is to contain five (5) or more residential dwelling units.

Family day home. A child day program offered in the residence of the provider or the home of any of the children in care for one (1) through twelve (12) children under the age of thirteen (13)

Limited assisted living facility. A building or place in which the establishment is providing housing, board, lodging and maintenance for four (4) or more aged persons who are not infirmed, chronically ill or incapacitated

Adult book store. An establishment having as more than twenty (20) percent of the items of its stock-in-trade: books, magazine, other periodicals, videotapes, computer disks, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, virtual reality devices or similar media, which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing or related to "specified sexual activities" or "specified anatomical areas."

Automobile sales, used. Storage and display for sale of more than two (2) previously owned motor vehicles or any type of unoccupied trailer

Animal livestock unit. One (1) animal livestock unit equals one thousand (1,000) pounds of live weight for any animal or group of animals.

Building, height of. The vertical distance measured from the level of approved street grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of roof surface of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; in the case of a building set back from the street line thirty-five (35) feet or more, the building height is measured from the average elevation of finished ground surface along the front of the building; and on corner lots exceeding twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in area, the height of the building may be measured from either adjoining curb grade.

Lot, corner. A lot located at the intersection of two (2) or more streets. A lot abutting on a curved street or streets shall be considered a corner lot if straight lines drawn from the foremost points of the side lot lines to the foremost point of the lot meet at an interior angle of less than one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees.

Public water system. A water system owned and operated by Amherst County, the Amherst County Service Authority or the Town of Amherst, or any water system for drinking or domestic use, approved by the health department, that generally has at least fifteen (15) connections or an average of twenty-five (25) individuals for at least sixty (60) days out of the year.

forty (40) or fewer feet in height in all other districts in which accessory structures are permitted

The term 'accessory building, use or structure' shall not include fences, dog pens, satellite dish antennas, clotheslines, heat pumps, or other similar structures.

A single-family dwelling containing sleeping and breakfast accommodations as an accessory use to the principal use. Such lodging shall have no more than five (5) room accommodations for transient persons