permit will be required. ## (d) The following are specifically excluded: ### (1) Family care homes , group homes except as allowed under § 15.2-2291 of the Code of Virginia, nursing homes, convalescent homes, elderly care facilities. ###
Read it in the chapter →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.