Land use · Cape Charles, Virginia

duplex dwelling

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 Cape Charles’s own text settles what this covers.

is created in recognition of the existence of developed areas where single-family and duplex dwellings currently exist on lots of 5,600 square feet and where the characteristics of the neighborhood include both permanent as well as

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right3

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.