Land use · Richmond, Virginia

Uses owned or operated by a governmental agency

Named in 8 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 Richmond’s own text settles what this covers.

and eleemosynary institutions, including social service delivery uses operated by such institutions; (8) Uses owned or operated by a governmental agency , but not including facilities intended for incarceration or alternative sentencing or facilities primarily for the care, treatment or housing of persons

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right8

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.