Land use · Alexandria, Virginia

animal shelter

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 Alexandria’s own text settles what this covers.

boarding facilities, veterinary/animal hospitals, but not including businesses that meet the definition of animal shelter . ### 2-111 - Animal shelter. Any place designated to provide for the temporary accommodation of four or more common household pets

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I zone: (A) Ambulance service; (A.1) Animal care facility with overnight accommodation; (B) Animal shelter ; (C) Automobile service station; (D) Bottling plant; (E) Building materials storage and sales; (F) Business or professional office; (G) Catering operations;

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