Land use · Chatham, Virginia

row 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.

Chapter 3Reads like a definition

by frames attached to the walls of dwellings or other buildings or structures. ** Row houses ** means one of a series of houses connected by common sidewalls and forming a continuous group. **Run-off** means water that flows

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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 families living independently of each other.

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.