Land use · Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia

Resource extraction

Named in 2 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 Essex County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 10Reads like a definition

recreation, landscaping, or natural preservation, and not used for residences or business activities. ** Resource extraction ** means a use involving on-site extraction of surface or subsurface mineral products or natural resources. Typical uses are quarries, borrow pits,

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Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use2

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.