Land use · Lancaster County Unincorporated, Virginia

nursing or convalescent home

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

and churches. **6A-1-14.** Educational institutions, public and private. **6A-1-15.** Hospitals and clinics. **6A-1-16.** Nursing or convalescent homes . **6A-1-17.** Any day care center. **6A-1-18.** Agriculture, but with a special exception for animal and poultry husbandry on a commercial basis.

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.