is intended to promote an environment that is conducive to the expansion of research, development, and laboratory facilities related to the medical, biotechnology, and life sciences industries, and other uses that support innovation such as a mixed-use residential, hotel,
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research, development and laboratory facilities
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 Richmond’s own text settles what this covers.