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.
secondary to the principal use of the premises as a dwelling unit. **.41 Hospital ** means a facility providing medical, psychiatric or surgical services for sick or injured persons primarily on an inpatient basis and including
Read it in the chapter →similar items for the convenience of patients and visitors may be located within hospital buildings, provided that there shall be no signs, displays, show windows or automated teller machines visible from the exterior of the
Read it in the chapter →chapter shall not apply to public buildings, including but not limited to schools, hospitals , churches, and government buildings, provided that such buildings are set back from all lot lines a distance of at least one
Read it in the chapter →required by law and provided, further, that the following shall be permitted: (1) * Hospitals and institutional uses.* A building or structure devoted to a nonconforming hospital or a nonconforming institution of a religious, educational, eleemosynary
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