Land use · Emporia, Virginia

Store, large

Named in 4 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 Emporia’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 1Reads like a definition

on-site consumption and/or provided to electric cooperative member-customers (non-retail, from behind the meter). ** Store, large ** means an establishment that is 3,000 square feet or more in total floor area and serves for the display and sale

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.

Prohibited3

Expressly not allowed.