Land use · Cumberland County Unincorporated, Virginia

agriculture

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

Chapter 1Reads like a definition

is by formal resolution designated to the position by the Board of Supervisors. * Agriculture * means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture, forestry, gardening, including the keeping of animals and fowl, and

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it by the Natural Resource Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture . 2. If no more than ten percent (10%) of the site is prime farmland; this consideration will be waived. k. The

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limited commercial and industrial uses which are supportive of and directly related to, agriculture , forestry or other traditionally rural uses, are to be permitted, but only in a manner consistent with the objectives of the

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4. Manufactured homes. 5. Modular housing units. 6. Accessory uses and structures. 7. Agriculture , provided that any agricultural industry plant shall be located at least two hundred (200) feet back from the street. 8. Churches,

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and barbershops. 16. Preserves and conservation areas. 17. Cemeteries. 18. Uses relating to agriculture shall be limited to raising of field crops, including hay and grazing pasture land and animals as permitted in section 74-264.

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.