Section
175-37.19 DEFINITIONS.
A. ASSISTED LIVING
FACILITY - A residential facility for two or more persons
that
provides nursing assistance and/or support services for residency of
elderly
and /or disabled persons, where residents share common meals.
B. COMMUNITY HALL
- A community hall is a structure designed and constructed for civic
uses and
shall include a community meeting room, a library annex, space
dedicated to
historical or cultural displays or uses, athletic or exercise
facilities, or
uses found to be similar in intent and function with this section.
C. MULTIPLEX
STRUCTURE - This term shall mean a residential dwelling unit
designed with not more than thiry (30) separate dwelling units for a
maximum occupancy by thirty (30) families living independently of each
other.
(Ord.
No.
24-05
Added (C) 9-26-05-Effective Upon Passage)
(Ord.
No.
13-11
Amended (C) 12-12-11-Effective Upon Passage)
D. NEIGHBORHOOD
RECREATION USE - This term shall include basketball courts, tennis
courts,
playgrounds, tot lots, picnic areas, and the like.
E. NEIGHBORHOOD
RESTAURANTS - A restaurant of not more than 20 seats, nor five
employees,
open for business not later than 10 p.m.
F. NEIGHBORHOOD-ORIENTED COMMERCIAL - This term shall
include neighborhood-oriented
retail
businesses with not more than 15,000 square feet of gross floor area.
The
term shall include convenience stores, bookstores, dry cleaners, ice
cream
stores, barber and beauty shops, wearing apparel stores, bakeries,
drugstores, gift shops, hardware stores, or other use found to be
similar to
one or
more uses listed herein, but shall not include automobiles sales
operations.
(Ord.
No.
13-11
Amended Square Feet and Removed "banks" 12-12-12-Effective Upon Passage)
G.
NONTIDAL WETLANDS
- Those wetlands other than tidal wetlands that are inundated or
saturated
by surface or ground water at a frequency or duration sufficient to
support,
and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of
vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, as defined by
the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to Section 404 of the Clean
Water Act
as amended.
H. OPEN SPACE - Common
space generally intended for passive recreation and not improved with a
building, structure, vehicular travel lane, driveway, street, sidewalk,
or
parking area. Open space may include pedestrian ways, bike paths,
trails
interconnecting open space areas; undisturbed natural areas, woodlands,
preservation
areas;
community
facilities; landscaped grounds, buffers;
playgrounds and tot lots; swimming and boating areas.
Open
space
shall
not include yards within individual residential
lots, yards less than (30) feet wide between buildings, lands occupied
by
tennis courts, golf courses, and buildings.
I. PLANNED
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT - Planned neighborhood development (PND)
is used
in two contexts. Depending upon the context, planned neighborhood
development refers to the development authorized by the ordinance or a
project
which is proposed for consideration under this ordinance.
This term
shall have the same meaning as mixed-use development and planned unit
development as defined in the Code of Virginia (1989 Session Virginia
Acts of
Assembly - Chapter 384).
J. RETIREMENT LIVING
FACILITIES - In accordance with Virginia Code Section 36-96.7,
residential
structures within a planned neighborhood development that are intended
to be
absent of school age children and which ensures, through covenants,
management
regulations or other similar legal instruments, enforceable by a
homeowners’
association or other similar private entity, that at least one of the
residents
of at least 80% of the units is 55 years of age or older. Such
facilities
may include extended care or nursing home facilities as defined in
Section
175-3 of the Town Code.
(Ord.
No. Z-1-05 Added Entire Section 4-11-05-Effective Upon Passage)