Land use · Portsmouth, Virginia

public uses

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.

for a street, road, alley, pedestrian way, crosswalk, bikeway, drainage facility, or other public uses . Right-of-way also means the area between lot lines that generally contains only the street pavement, sidewalk, grass areas, and underground or

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