Land use · Chesterfield County Unincorporated, Virginia

substantial improvements

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 Chesterfield County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 9Reads like a definition

percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred. ### Substantial Improvement Substantial Improvement means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50

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Engineering. **10.** Except for the Upper Swift Creek Watershed, all new construction and substantial improvements of residential dwellings shall have minimum setbacks from an RPA which encroaches within a lot or parcel that is the lesser

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