Land use · Portsmouth, Virginia

limited retail

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.

the residents of the immediately surrounding neighborhood (e.g., personal service uses, restaurants, and limited retail ). Development in the district should not include uses of a size that are out of scale with a residential neighborhood. ###

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