Land use · Radford, Virginia

Family day care home

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 Radford’s own text settles what this covers.

Chapter 1Reads like a definition

more than five unrelated person occupying a single dwelling unit. # Definitions (continued) ** Family day care home ** means a single-family dwelling in which more than five but less than 13 individuals are received for care, protection and guidance

Read it in the chapter →

shall be permitted in the R-1 Single-Family Residential District: 1. Single-family dwellings; 2. Family day care home , serving one through five children, exclusive of the provider's children and any children who reside in the home as residential occupancy

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.