Land use · Bluefield, Virginia

hospital

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 Bluefield’s own text settles what this covers.

shelter, convent, monastery, dormitory, fraternity or sorority house, but does not include jails, hospitals , nursing homes, hotels or lodginghouses. **Convalescent center** means a facility which is publicly or privately operated and intended for long-term patient

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this chapter. The location of hotels, motels, mobile home parks, commercial amusement parks, hospitals , airports, repetitive helicopter landings and departures on the same parcel of land, borrow pits, hog farms, sanitary fill method garbage refuse

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foster homes or group homes for the handicapped. (4) Schools. (5) Churches. (6) Hospitals . (7) Parks and playgrounds. (8) Day care, family. (9) Day care, facility, with an appropriate state license and home occupation permit.

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be provided for every ten fixed seats provided in such building. (d) For hospitals , at least one parking space shall be provided for each two beds capacity, including infants' cribs and children's beds. (e) For

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.