Land use · Amherst, Virginia

Machinery sales and services conducted within a building

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’s own text settles what this covers.

(19) Hospitals, nursing homes and retirement centers. (20) Laboratories, pharmaceutical or medical. (21) Machinery sales and services conducted within a building . (22) Manufacturing, processing or fabricating, distributing, or packaging of products (including machine shops without punch presses), provided all operations are conducted

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.