Land use · Roanoke, Virginia

Animal shelter

Named in 2 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 Roanoke’s own text settles what this covers.

studio or station | 300 sf net floor area | Y | | Animal shelter | 500 sf net floor area | Y | | Stable, commercial | 4 stalls | Y | | Wildlife rescue

Read it in the chapter →

be clearly incidental to the operation of the animal hospital or veterinary clinic. ** Animal shelter :** A use in which the principal activity is the temporary housing of stray, abandoned, abused, neglected, or unwanted domestic animals, placed

Read it in the chapter →

Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right2

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.