Land use · Gate City, Virginia

single-family dwellings

Named in 3 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.

or on the lot, space for the parking of two automobiles for each single-family dwelling unit in a new building, or each single-family dwelling unit added in the case of the enlargement of an existing building.

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be for one or more of the following uses: 1. Home gardens. 2. Single-family dwellings ; conventional, site-built, or modular single unit construction only. 3. Convalescent home, nursing home or home for the aged, with a special

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gardens. 2. Apartments, with a special exception and use permit. 3. Boardinghouses. 4. Single-family dwellings ; conventional, site-built, single unit construction or modular home as defined. 5. Two-family duplexes and multiple-family dwellings. 6. Family care home, foster

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Uses. A building or land shall be used for the following purposes: (1) Single-family dwellings , conventional, site-built, single unit construction, modular housing as defined, or double-wide housing as defined. (2) Manufactured and/or modular housing on individual

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requirements where necessary to facilitate placement with the approval of town council. 43. Single-family dwellings used for residential purposes on the upper floors and at the rear of a building used for commercial purposes. (Comp. Ords.,

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right3

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.