Land use · Portsmouth, Virginia

institutions

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 Portsmouth’s own text settles what this covers.

(GMU) district is established to provide a wide variety of professional offices and institutions and a broad range of light and moderate intensity commercial uses proximate to residential and more intense business districts so as

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| Psychiatric Treatment Facility | 1 per 2 beds | None | | ** Institutions ** | | | | Civic, Social, or Fraternal Clubs or Lodges | 1 per 500 sf. | 5% of vehicle parking

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**RECYCLING CENTER**—See Sec. 40.2-214. **RECYCLING DROP-OFF STATION**—See Sec. 40.2-215. **REHABILITATION**—See Sec. 40.2-206(A). **RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION **—A building, together with its accessory buildings and use, where persons regularly assemble for religious purposes and related social, educational, and recreational

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