Land use · Halifax, Virginia

Off-street parking as required

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 Halifax’s own text settles what this covers.

uses: 1. Single-family dwellings; 2. Schools; 3. Churches; 4. Parks and playgrounds; 5. Off-street parking as required by this chapter; 6. Accessory buildings; however, garages or other accessory buildings, such as carports, porches and stoops, attached to the

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and playgrounds; 11. Professional offices; 12. Home occupations, conducted by the occupant; 13. Off-street parking as required by this chapter; 14. Accessory buildings; however, garages and other accessory structures, such as carports, porches, and stoops, attached to the

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and beauty shops; 7. Gift shops; 8. Clothing shops; 9. Appliance stores; 10. Off-street parking as required by this chapter; 11. Public utilities such as poles, lines, distribution transformers, pipes, meters or other facilities necessary for the provision

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a conditional use permit; 22. Machinery sales and services; 23. Public utilities; 24. Off-street parking as required by this chapter; 25. Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls and similar forms of public amusement only

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wind power, geothermal, biofuel, biodiesel, hydrogen and renewable energy; (27) Monumental stoneworks; (28) Off-street parking as required by this chapter; (29) Offices, office buildings, and office complexes; (30) Outdoor amusement/entertainment areas, if issued a conditional use permit; (31)

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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.