Land use · Martinsville, Virginia

Attached dwellings

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 Martinsville’s own text settles what this covers.

features within the subdivision. In addition to single family detached dwellings, single family attached dwellings (townhouses) and multifamily dwellings may be permitted in the R-N, subject to approval of conditions attached to a special use permit.

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which can be otherwise achieved by conventional R-C District lot and yard regulations. Attached dwellings and multifamily dwellings on reduced size lots may be integrated into cluster projects. Multifamily dwellings shall require a special use permit.

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1. Accessory uses and structures. 2. Artisan craft production. 3. Artist studio. 4. Attached dwellings . 5. Bakery or specialty food store. 6. Banks and financial services. 7. Bed and breakfast inn, including bed and breakfast home

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adjacent individual lots. Each unit shall have its own outside entrance. The term attached dwelling includes structures such as semi-detached dwellings, patio houses, and townhouses, but not multifamily or apartment dwellings. Code requirements for attached dwellings

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unless otherwise approved through a site plan or special use permit process. 2. Attached dwellings , semi-detached dwellings, and multifamily dwellings, and lots related thereto, may have frontage on, and direct access to, either: (1) a dedicated

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