Shenandoah County Unincorporated

BED-AND-BREAKFAST: ... offering at least one meal per day to each person to whom overnight lodging is provided, and the owner or manager living on the same parcel or an adjacent parcel.

DORMITORY HOUSING FOR FARM WORKERS: Any building used for housing seasonal laborers on a temporary basis and not to be used as permanent year-round dwellings. Such buildings shall be occupied only during apple thinning, apple harvest, and tree pruning seasons.

RURAL RESORT: A private establishment consisting of a detached structure or structures located in a rural setting in which lodging units are offered to transients for compensation as the principal use, which shall include at least one of the following uses: conference and meeting facilities, restaurant and banquet facilities, or recreational amenities, such as, but not limited to, pools, hiking trails, playgrounds, water park, zip line, marina or high ropes course.

CORPORATE TRAINING CENTER: A facility used for business or professional conferences, seminars, and training programs, which may include accommodations for sleeping, eating and recreation by participants.

COUNTRY INN: A place of lodging in a predominantly rural area where a traveler may obtain meals, lodging or both.

COUNTRY CLUB AND AMENITIES: Includes a golf course, club house and accessory uses and buildings which are publicly or privately owned and may include other uses such as restaurants, snack bars, tennis courts, swimming pools, pro shops, riding stables, tack shops.

CLUB (LODGE), PRIVATE: Building(s) and other facilities owned or operated by a corporation, association, person or persons for a social, educational or recreational purpose, but not primarily for profit or to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business.

CEMETERY: A burial ground of a single or multiple human bodies and/or body parts.

CAVE: A natural chamber or series of chambers in the earth or in the side of a hill or cliff that was not formed by animals or humans and wherein pure darkness can be achieved where no sunlight can reach the space so depicted on the most recent Virginia Natural Heritage Data Explorer.

SINKHOLE: A cavity in the ground, especially in limestone bedrock, caused by water erosion and providing a route for surface water to disappear underground so depicted on the most recent Virginia Department of Mines Minerals and Energy Department dataset.

SPRING: A natural discharge point of subterranean water at the surface of the ground or directly into the bed of a stream, lake, pond, or river so depicted on the most recent Virginia Department of Mines Minerals and Energy Department dataset.

WETLAND: Land consisting of marshes, swamps, bogs, fens, or saturated land so depicted on the most recent Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, or United States Fish and Wildlife Service dataset and any wetlands identified by a land survey, engineer, or other certified official.

ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE: A site identified by the Virginia Department of Historical and Cultural Resources or National Register of Historic Places.

BATTLEFIELD CORE AREA: An area identified as a core in Shenandoah County Comprehensive Plan per the Federal Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields.

BATTLEFIELD STUDY AREA: An area identified for study in Shenandoah County Comprehensive Plan per the Federal Civil War Sites Advisory Commission Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields.

VIEWSHED: An area that can be seen from public rights-of-way, recreational amenities on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, or trails on mountains.

TREE CANOPY COVER: Land identified as forest on the Shenandoah County General Land Use Map in the Comprehensive Plan.

DISTURBANCE ZONE: An area directly impacted by construction and operation of a permitted project, including without limitation buildings, buffers, ground-mounted equipment, excavation, landscaping, parking, roads, sidewalks, soil and material stockpiles, trails, and wildlife corridors.

PROJECT: Development of land, including previously disturbed land, yet not including redevelopments.

SITE: The area containing a permitted project or redevelopment.