Land use · Chatham, Virginia

apartment house

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 Chatham’s own text settles what this covers.

other than the following specified purposes: A building or buildings, commonly known as apartment house or houses, town or row houses, used or intended to be used as a place of abode of three or more

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.