Fluvanna County Unincorporated

Family day home: A child day program offered in the residence of the provider or the home of any of the children in care for one (1) through twelve (12) children under the age of thirteen, exclusive of the provider's own children and any children who reside in the home, when at least one (1) child receives care for compensation.

Child day center: A child day program offered to (i) two (2) or more children under the age of thirteen in a facility that is not the residence of the provider or of any of the children in care or (ii) thirteen (13) or more children at any location.

Automobile graveyard: Any lot or place which is exposed to the weather and upon which more than five (5) motor vehicles of any kind that are incapable of being operated, and which it would not be economically practical to make operative, are placed, located or found.

Dance hall: Establishments in which more than ten percent (10%) of the total floor area is designed or used as a dance floor, or where an admission fee is directly collected, or some other form of compensation is obtained for dancing, except when sponsored by civic, charitable, or nonprofit groups.

Event facility: A place of public assembly, used primarily as a facility for hosting functions including, but not limited to, weddings, receptions, banquets, anniversaries, meetings or conferences. The event facility may be located in a building or tent, be in an uncovered, outdoor gathering space of less than 200 people or a combination thereof.

Group home: A licensed residential facility in which no more than eight (8) mentally ill, mentally retarded or developmentally disabled persons reside, with one or more resident counselors or other staff persons, shall be considered a residential occupancy by a single family.

Assisted living facility: A publicly or privately operated long-term care alternative for persons aged 55 and over, or persons with disabilities, as defined by the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act, that provides the availability of professionally managed personal and health care services to occupants on premises.

Central sewerage system: A sewerage system consisting of pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, force mains or sewage treatment plants, including, but not limited to, septic tanks and/or drain fields, or any of them designed to serve three (3) or more connections, used for conducting or treating sewage which is required to be approved by the Board of Supervisors in accordance with the Virginia Waste Management Act.

Central water supply: A water supply consisting of a well, springs or other source and the necessary pipes, conduits, mains, pumping stations and other facilities in connection therewith, to serve or to be capable of serving three (3) or more connections, which is required to be approved by the Board of Supervisors in accordance with the Virginia State Water Control Board Regulations.

Retail store, specialty: A retail sales establishment of not more than 4,000 square feet that specializes in one type or line of merchandise or service including, but not limited to, antique stores, bookstores, shoe stores, stationary stores, jewelry stores, auto parts stores, and hardware stores.

Sign, projecting: A sign, attached to and supported by a building or wall, that projects out perpendicularly from that wall more than twelve inches (12") but not more than four feet (4').

Sign, wall: A sign mounted flat against, or painted on, the exterior wall of a building or structure and not projecting more than twelve inches (12") from the surface of the building, unless on the mansard portion of a roof.

Sign, window: A permanent or temporary sign affixed to the interior or exterior of a window or door, or within three feet (3') of the interior of the window or door; provided that the display of goods available for purchase on the premises is not a window sign. Such signs shall not exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total area of the window or door on which it is located.

Story, half: A space under a sloping roof, which has the line of intersection of roof decking and wallface more than three feet (3') above the floor level, and in which space not more than two-thirds (2/3) of the floor area is finished for use.

Caliper: A measure of tree size, determined by measuring the diameter of a tree at a point six inches (6") above the root ball, at the time of planting, or twelve inches (12") above the ground, for established vegetation.

Diameter at breast height: A measure of tree size, determined by measuring the diameter of a tree at a point four and one-half feet (4.5') above the ground.

Floodway: The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one (1) foot at any point.

Base flood/one-hundred year flood: A flood that, on the average, is likely to occur once every 100 years (i.e., that has a one percent (1%) chance of occurring each year, although the flood may occur in any year).

Special use permit: A permit issued by the governing body for a use which is only permitted upon such permit; a special exception. See Article 17 of this chapter.

All sites subject to site plan approval and all major subdivisions shall reserve a riparian protection area in accordance with the following requirements: (1) The riparian protection area shall be at least fifty feet (50') wide along both sides of all intermittent streams, at least seventy-five feet (75') wide along both sides of all perennial streams, and at least one hundred feet (100') wide along both sides of the Hardware River, Rivanna River, and James River.