Ashland

Home occupation. Any occupation, profession, enterprise or similar activity conducted within a dwelling unit which is the residence of the practitioner or within a building accessory to such dwelling unit. In order to qualify as a home occupation, an activity as described herein must be clearly secondary to the principal dwelling use of the premises and must meet all of the standards set forth in ATC chapter 21, article XXV, supplemental regulations, which standards are intended to distinguish such activity from other business uses and to ensure compatibility with nearby residential uses.

Park. Any area that is predominantly open space, used principally for active or passive recreation, and not used for a profit-making purpose. This shall include common uses and recreational structures associated with active play and recreation, such as, but not limited to, playgrounds, community gardens, walkways, trails, recreation fields, basketball court, picnic tables and shelters, gazebo, tennis court, and equipment storage sheds. Any area designated by the town as a park.

Park-and-Ride Lot. An off-street parking facility designed or intended to provide peripheral collection and storage of vehicles to accommodate commuter traffic into or out from the community, including accessory structures such as passenger shelters.

Parking Lot. An open, unoccupied space used or required for use for parking of automobiles or other private vehicles exclusively and in which no gas or automobile accessories are sold or no other business is conducted and no fees are charged.

Parking Space, Off-Street. An all-weather surfaced area not within a public street or alley right-of-way and having not less area than specified by this chapter, exclusive of driveways, and permanently reserved for the temporary parking of one vehicle, and connected with a street or alley by a surfaced driveway which affords ingress and egress for a vehicle without requiring another vehicle to be moved.

Public Water and Sewer Systems. The water or sewer system owned and operated by the town or other unit of government authorized by state law.

Real Estate Office. A business in the profession of buying, selling, or renting an item of real property. These items can include, but are not limited to, land, buildings, housing, or natural resources.

Recreational Equipment, Major. Travel trailers, pickup campers, motorized trailers, motor homes, recreational vehicles, houseboats, boats, other water craft, boat and water craft trailers and the like, and cases or boxes used for transporting such recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not.

Recreational Equipment, Minor. Equipment not requiring licensing from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) or other state agencies, which includes, but is not limited to, golf carts, dirt bikes, ATVs, and kayaks.

Recreational Facility, Indoor. Predominantly participant uses conducted within an enclosed building, but not including public facilities. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, arcades, bowling alleys, billiard parlors and poolrooms, dance halls, ice and roller skating rinks, indoor racquetball, swimming, and/or tennis facilities. Restaurants and retail sales establishments with pool tables and video game machines as accessory uses shall not be considered an indoor recreational facilities.

Recreational Facility, Outdoor. Predominantly participant uses conducted in open or partially enclosed or screened facilities, but not including public facilities. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, driving ranges, miniature golf courses, tennis courts, motorized cart tracks, swimming pools, and athletic ball fields.

Repair Services

No proposed structure or altered structure may create a hazard for the Hanover County Airport... Exceeds one hundred and forty (140) feet above ground level; or is within twenty thousand (20,000) feet of the Hanover County Airport and exceeds a 100:1 surface slope from any point on the runway; Must submit to the FAA...

Any violation of the following provisions of this chapter shall be deemed an infraction and shall be punishable by civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the initial summons, and one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for each additional summons: ATC Article XX, all sections | Signs

Higher Education HE

Planned Unit Development PUD

Planned Mobile Home PMH

Planned Shopping Center PSC

Planned Office-Business POB

All territory which may hereafter be annexed to the town shall be considered as being in the Rural Residential District RR-1 until such time as it may be changed by amendment to this chapter.