Appomattox County Unincorporated

INTENSIVE SWINE FACILITY — Any enclosure, pen, feedlot or accessory structure(s) that includes the raising or production of at least 750 pigs.

FAMILY — One or more persons living together in a single-family dwelling unit as a traditional family or the functional equivalent of a traditional family. It shall be a rebuttable presumption that four or more persons living together in a single-family dwelling unit who are not related by blood, adoption, or marriage do not constitute the functional equivalent of a traditional family.

FAMILY DAY HOME — A single-family dwelling in which more than five but fewer than 13 individuals are received for care, protection, and guidance during only part of a twenty-four-hour day.

GROUP HOME — A residential facility in which no more than eight mentally ill, mentally disabled or developmentally disabled persons reside, with one or more resident counselors or other staff persons.

HOME FOR ADULTS — Any place, establishment or institution, public or private, including any day-care center for adults, operated or maintained for the maintenance or care of four or more adults who are aged, infirm or disabled.

HOME FOR THE AGED — A building or place in which the establishment is providing housing, board, lodging and maintenance for four or more aged persons who are not infirmed, chronically ill or incapacitated.

KENNEL, COMMERCIAL — The boarding, breeding, raising, grooming, or training of three or more dogs, cats or other household pets of any age not owned by the owner or occupant of the property and for which commercial gain is the primary objective.

KENNEL, PRIVATE — The keeping, breeding, raising, showing or training of three or more dogs over six months of age for personal enjoyment of the owner or occupants of the property, and for which commercial gain is not the primary objective.

MINI-WAREHOUSE — A building designed to provide rental storage space in cubicles, where each cubicle has a maximum floor area of 400 square feet.

MOBILE HOME — A structure, transportable in one section, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a single-family dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities.

MOBILE HOME PARK — A parcel of land under single common ownership or which is operated as a business engaged in providing a place for manufactured homes, upon which three or more mobile homes are located on a continual, non-transient living or sleeping purposes, non-recreational, basis.

HOTEL/MOTEL/MOTOR LODGE — A building or group of attached or detached buildings containing dwelling or lodging units, in which 50% or more of the units are intended primarily for rental or lease to transient persons by the day, week, or month.

FARM — An area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals; making one's living by growing crops or keeping livestock, from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products are produced and sold, or normally would be sold, during a calendar year.

FARM BREWERY, LIMITED — A brewery that manufactures no more than 15,000 barrels of beer per calendar year, provided that the brewery is located on a farm owned or leased by such brewery or its owner and agricultural products, including barley, other grains, hops, or fruit used by such brewery in the manufacture of its beer, are grown on the farm.

MICROBREWERY — A brewery which is housed within and operated in conjunction with a restaurant, and which manufactures no more than 15,000 barrels of beer per calendar year.

FARM WINERY — An establishment with facilities for fermenting and bottling where the owner or lessee of the facility manufactures wine that contains not more than 18% alcohol by volume and is either (1) located on a farm with a producing vineyard, orchard, or similar growing area or (2) located in the state with a producing vineyard, orchard, or similar growing area or that has agreements to purchase grapes or fruits from agricultural growers within the state.

HEIGHT, SYSTEM — The height of a wind turbine measured from the existing lowest grade to the tip of the rotor blade at its highest point, or blade-tip height.

LAND-DISTURBING ACTIVITY — Any man-made change of the land surface, including removing vegetative cover, excavating, filling and grading, and the construction of any structure—but not including minor modifications to landscaping or agricultural activities such as planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops or trees, or growing or tending of gardens.

NATURAL WATERCOURSE — Any natural stream, river, creek, waterway, gully, or wash in which water flows in a definite direction or course, either continuously or intermittently, and which has a definite channel, bed, and banks.

NONPUBLIC WATER SYSTEM — A water system which, as a general rule, does not provide water to the public for drinking or does not meet the requirements for a public water system; or a well used for obtaining water for drinking or domestic use located on an individual lot for the purpose of serving the main dwelling on said lot, with any new well to be at least a Class III-A drilled well as approved by the Health Department.