Land use · Halifax, Virginia

Sawmills

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 Halifax’s own text settles what this covers.

store, florist, optician, music and radio store, tailor shop, barbershop and beauty shop. ** Sawmill .** A portable sawmill located on a private property for the processing of timber cut only from that property or from property

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4. Preserves and conservation areas; 5. Lodges, hunting clubs and boating clubs; 6. Sawmills ; 7. Small boat docks, with repair; 8. Cemeteries; 9. Home occupations; 10. Industrialized/modular buildings used for single-family residential occupancy; 11. Public

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.