Land use · Spotsylvania County Unincorporated, Virginia

Hotels, motels

Named in 2 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 Spotsylvania County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 2Reads like a definition

nurses. This terminology shall include, but not be limited to mental health sanitariums. ** Hotel, motel ** means a building or portion thereof or a group of buildings which provide sleeping accommodations in six (6) or more separate

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by a Federal, State or County agency or department; x. nursing homes; xi. hotel, motel , inn, and xii. lodging house. (2) Spacing distances. (a) For the purpose of subsection (c), spacing distances shall be measured, as

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food, inconsistent with the use allowed by-right herein; 6. Fuel dispensing service; 7. Hotels, motels ; 8. Live entertainment, outdoor; 9. Parking, commercial off-street as a principle use; 10. Personal service establishment, inconsistent with the use allowed

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.

Conditional / special use1

Allowed only after a discretionary approval.