Land use · Chesapeake, Virginia

residential

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 Chesapeake’s own text settles what this covers.

institutional and assembly sites in conjunction with the growth of the commercial and residential centers that they will serve. Accordingly, many of these sites are expected to be located in close proximity to commercial centers

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to agricultural work and life and the people of the agricultural community. Large-scale residential development is presumed to be incompatible with agricultural operations. In the southern portion of the city where most agricultural production now

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physical development, creative design, and a better environment. PUD districts include planned unit residential development, (PUD-R), planned unit commercial development (PUD-C), planned unit industrial park (PUD-IP), and urban planned unit development (PUD-U). In view of

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has been used in that capacity since World War II. In response to residential growth in southern Chesapeake in the area near the airfield, the Department of Defense established the Air Installation Compatible Use Zone

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collection and hauling of waste or debris on property zoned or used for residential purposes and section 14-500 for specific requirements for property located in the office and institutional, business, industrial and assembly center districts).

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Where it is allowed here

Conditional / special use1

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.