Land use · Gate City, Virginia

family care home

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 Gate City’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 1Reads like a definition

distinguished from an unrelated group occupying a boardinghouse, lodginghouse, tourist home, or hotel. ** Family care home , foster home, or group home** means a residential structure established to serve mentally retarded or other developmentally disabled persons, not related

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area. (8) For hospitals, convalescent homes, nursing homes or homes for the aged, family care homes , foster homes or group homes, at least one parking space for each two beds' capacity, including infants' cribs and children's beds.

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or home for the aged, with a special exception and use permit. 4. Family care home , foster home, or group home, with a special exception and use permit. 5. Schools, public and private. 6. Churches and other

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construction or modular home as defined. 5. Two-family duplexes and multiple-family dwellings. 6. Family care home , foster home, or group home. 7. Schools, public and private. 8. Cemeteries, with a special exception and use permit. 9. Churches

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or homes for the aged with a special exception and use permit. (7) Family care homes , foster homes or group homes with a special exception and use permit. (8) Public utilities: poles, distribution lines, distribution transformers, pipes,

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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.