Land use · Bristol, Virginia

Elderly Care Facility

Named in 3 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 Bristol’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 18Reads like a definition

housekeeping unit, physically separated from any other dwelling unit in the same structure. ** Elderly care facility ** means a properly licensed facility, other than a group home as defined herein, that may provide 24-hour medical care for disabled

Read it in the chapter →

| | Gardening | | | | Bed and Breakfast | | | Elderly Care Facility | | | Children's Residential Facility | | | Transitional Housing | | **COMMUNITY OR CIVIC USES** | **COMMUNITY OR CIVIC

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.

Conditional / special use2

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.