Municipality · Virginia

Amherst

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.
10
Districts
249
Extracted rules
625
Standards
16
Chapters read

Zoning districts

10 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

239 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.

Sec. 24-21 standards

Where the goods are typically inside, a small display of goods may be outside of the building, limited to no more than 20 square feet of area, so long as the display is not in any required area, such as parking, setbacks, public rights-of-way.

Sec. 24-21 standards

Sign, temporary, means any sign, banner, pennant, valance, or advertising display constructed of cloth, canvas, light fabric, cardboard, wallboard, or other materials with or without frames intended to be displayed for a period of not more than 60 consecutive days.

Sec. 24-21 standards

Bulk storage means aboveground storage of liquid in excess of 1,500 gallons.

Sec. 24-22 standards

General convenience store means a single store, the ground floor area of which is 4,000 square feet or less...

Sec. 24-21 standards

Grocery store means a single store building with a ground floor area of not more than 10,000 square feet...

Sec. 24-21 standards

Shopping center means a group of commercial establishments, planned and developed as a unit, with common off-street parking provided on the property, located on a parcel of land ten or more acres in size.

Sec. 24-21 standards

Theater, outdoor, means an area not to exceed five acres containing a screen projection booth, refreshment stand, parking spaces and sound transmission devices to individual parking spaces only for the purpose of commercial exhibition of motion pictures.

Sec. 24-21 standards

Bed and breakfast lodging means 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 room accommodations for transient persons...

Sec. 24-21 standards

Craft brewery means a facility that produces and distributes beer or other fermented malt beverages in quantities not exceeding 15,000 barrels (15,000 BBL) per year...

Sec. 24-21 standards

Craft distillery means a facility that produces and distributes spirits, as defined in the Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, in quantities not exceeding 36,000 gallons of alcoholic beverages other than wine or beer per calendar year...

Sec. 24-21 standards

Family, except as provided in Code of Virginia, §§ 15.2-2292—15.2-2292.1, means one 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 persons...

Sec. 24-21 standards

Preserved area means an area containing sensitive lands with features such as steep slopes, stream bottoms, critical viewshed, established trees or other vegetation or public ownership where the town council has determined that such features are worthy of preservation... No clearing or grading is allowed in a preserved area prior to specific approval by the town council or planning commission of a rezoning, special use permit or site plan.

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Bed and breakfast lodging)1 standards

no more than five room accommodations for transient persons

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Craft brewery)1 standards

quantities not exceeding 15,000 barrels (15,000 BBL) per year

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Craft distillery)1 standards

quantities not exceeding 36,000 gallons of alcoholic beverages other than wine or beer per calendar year

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Family)1 standards

no such family shall contain more than five persons

Sec. 24-2 (definition of General convenience store)2 standards

ground floor area of which is 4,000 square feet or less ... no more than four gasoline and/or diesel dispensers

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Grocery store)1 standards

ground floor area of not more than 10,000 square feet

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Mobile home)1 standards

Mobile homes are allowed only in manufactured home parks.

Sec. 24-2 (definition of Outdoor display)1 standards

limited to no more than 20 square feet of area, so long as the display is not in any required area

Source documents

The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.