Land use · Suffolk, Virginia

fill for structural support of buildings

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 Suffolk’s own text settles what this covers.

into multiple rooms, temperature-controlled, or used for human habitation. (vii) The use of fill for structural support of buildings is prohibited. When non-structural fill is proposed in a coastal high hazard area, appropriate engineering analyses shall be conducted to evaluate

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