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 Sussex County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.
roads, schools, water supply and sewer facilities, and police and fire protection facilities. ** Public utilities ** means a group of uses which provide essential energy and communication services to the general public. These include but are not
Read it in the chapter →portions of the county now devoted predominately to farms and forests in which public utilities are not generally available or anticipated in the near future. This district is established to protect land and property values, groundwater
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