promote and encourage a suitable environment for family life and to prohibit all activities of a commercial nature . To these ends, development shall be limited to low concentrations of homesites on more spacious lots. Uses are limited to single-family
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activities of a commercial nature
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 Emporia’s own text settles what this covers.