Land use · Portsmouth, Virginia

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.

there are lands in the City that provide a wide range of office, retail , service, mixed, and related uses to meet household and business needs, and more specifically to: #### (1) Provide appropriately located lands

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the total requirements of all individual uses. This does not apply to multi-tenant retail centers. (3) Seat-Based Standards. Except as otherwise provided in this section, where the minimum number of off-street parking spaces is based

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alley. **ADULT DAY CARE CENTER**—See Sec. 40.2-212. **ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT**—See Sec. 40.2-213. **ADULT RETAIL STORE**—See Sec. 40.2-213. **ALLEY**—A minor way that is of relatively narrow width and is designed to give access to the side

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