Land use · Portsmouth, Virginia

medium to high intensity 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.

is established to accommodate a mix of residential and a diverse range of medium to high intensity retail , service, and office uses that provide goods and services serving the residents and businesses in the community at large. The district

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