Land use · Winchester, Virginia

mental institution

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 Winchester’s own text settles what this covers.

Institutions of a religious, educational, eleemosynary, or philanthropic nature, but not penal or mental institutions . **5-2-7** Bed and Breakfast Homestay within structures at least 50 years old at the time of adoption of this Ordinance (2/11/97,

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