Land use · Amherst, Virginia

confined livestock facility

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.

Chapter 8Reads like a definition

given livestock species or any combination of other livestock species (7 CFR 1466.3). * Confined livestock facility * means a livestock facility that stables, confines, feeds, or maintains animals for a total of 45 days or more in any

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Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use1

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.