§ 3-4000. Civic use types.
Administrative service.\ Governmental officials providing administrative, clerical or public contact services that deal directly with the citizen. Typical uses include federal, state and county offices.
Adult care center.\ A facility that provides care to adults during part of the day only and which includes personal supervision of the adults and promotes social, physical, and emotional well-being through companionship, self-education and leisure time activities.
Assisted living facility.\ Any congregate residential setting that provides personal and health care services, twenty-four-hour supervision, meals, housekeeping and assistance (scheduled or unscheduled) for the maintenance, or care of four (4) or more adults who are aged, infirm or disabled and who are cared for in a primarily residential setting. Residents are primarily in good health and are in need of residential care rather than medical treatment.
Cemetery.\ A place used for interment of human or animal remains or cremated remains, including a burial park for earth interments, a mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, a columbarium for cinerary interments, or a combination thereof.
Cemetery, animal.\ A parcel of land or portion thereof, buildings, and/or structures used for the interring of animal remains.
Cemetery, church.\ A parcel of land or portion thereof, buildings, and/or structures, owned and operated by a church, used for the interring of human remains.
Cemetery, private.\ A parcel of land or portion thereof, buildings, and/or structures, privately owned and operated, used for the interring of human remains.
Cemetery, public.\ A parcel of land or portion thereof, buildings, and/or structures, owned and operated by the county, state, or federal government, used for the interring of human remains.
Child care center.\ A child day program offered to two (2) or more children under the age of thirteen (13) in a facility that is not the residence of the provider or of any of the children in care.
Child care institution.\ Any institution maintained for the purpose of receiving children for full-time care, maintenance, protection and guidance separated from their parents or guardians. This shall not include primary or secondary educational facilities or summer camps.
Club.\ A use providing meeting, or social facilities for social clubs, fraternal/sororal organizations, lodge, and similar organizations and associations, primarily for use by members and guests. Recreational facilities, unless otherwise specifically cited in this section, may be provided for members and guests as an accessory use. This definition excludes hunt clubs and dance halls, which are defined separately.
Community center.\ A place, structure, or other facility used for providing civic and/or recreational programs generally open to the public and designed to accommodate and serve significant segments of the community. This use can also be referred to as a convention or civic center.
Correctional facility.\ A publicly or privately operated use providing housing and care for individuals legally confined, designed to isolate those individuals from the community.
Crisis center.\ A facility providing temporary protective sanctuary for victims of crime or abuse, and homelessness including emergency housing during crisis intervention for individuals, such as victims of rape, child abuse, or physical beatings.
Cultural service.\ A library, museum, or similar public or quasi-public use displaying, preserving and exhibiting objects of community and cultural interest in one (1) or more of the arts or sciences. Such uses shall include, but are not limited to, libraries, museums, art galleries, and art centers.
Educational facility, college/university.\ An educational institution authorized by the Commonwealth of Virginia to award associate, baccalaureate or higher degrees.
Educational facility, primary/secondary.\ A public, private or parochial school offering instruction at the elementary, junior and/or senior high school levels in the branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Halfway house.\ An establishment providing accommodations, rehabilitation, counseling, and supervision to persons suffering from alcohol or drug addiction or similar disorders, and/or to persons re-entering society after being released from a correctional facility or other institution.
Life care facility.\ A residential facility primarily for the continuing care of the elderly, providing for transitional housing progressing from independent living in various dwelling units, with or without kitchen facilities, and culminating in nursing home-type care, where all related uses are located on the same lot. Such facility may include other services integral to the personal and therapeutic care of the residents.
Modular classroom.\ Portable, prefabricated buildings which are constructed off site and used as temporary facilities in relation to expanding educational facilities.
Nursing home.\ A facility whose primary function is to provide nursing and health-related services for the treatment and inpatient care of two (2) or more unrelated individuals, including facilities known as convalescent homes, skilled nursing facilities or skilled care facilities, intermediate care facilities, extended care facilities and nursing or nursing care facilities. A hospice is also included in this use. Excluded from this use type is any facility providing surgical or emergency medical services and facilities providing care for alcoholism, drug addiction, mental disease, or communicable disease.
Park and ride facility.\ A publicly owned, short-term parking facility for commuters.
Post office.\ Postal services directly available to the consumer operated by the United States Postal Service.
Public sports/event facility.\ Facilities owned and operated by a government or quasi-government agency accommodating public assembly for sports, amusements, or entertainment purposes. Typical uses include auditoriums, sports auditorium, convention facilities, fairgrounds, and incidental sales and exhibition facilities.
Public maintenance and service facility.\ A government owned or operated facility supporting maintenance, repair, vehicular or equipment servicing, material storage, and similar activities.
Public park and recreational area.\ Government owned and operated park, picnic area, playground, indoor or outdoor athletic facility, game preserve and open space.
Public safety service.\ Facility for the conduct of safety and emergency services for the primary benefit of the public, whether publicly or privately owned and operated, including police and fire protection services, emergency medical and ambulance services, and helicopter landing sites.
Religious assembly.\ A use providing regular organized religious worship and related incidental activities within or out of a structure including accessory uses, such as day care facilities, but not including educational facilities, primary and secondary.
Rehabilitation service.\ A use providing recuperative or similar services for persons requiring rehabilitation assistance as a result of physical, mental illness, alcoholism, detention, drug addiction, or similar conditions for only part of a twenty-four-hour day.
Transit station.\ A passenger station for vehicular, and rail mass transit systems, including facilities providing maintenance and service for the vehicles operated in the transit system. Included in this definition are buses, taxis, railway, etc.
Utility service/major.\ A service of a regional nature which normally entails the construction of new buildings or structures such as generating plants and sources, electrical switching facilities and stations or substations, community wastewater treatment plants, and water supply and production in excess of fifty thousand (50,000) gallons per day. Included in this definition are also electric, gas and other utility transmission lines of a regional nature that are not otherwise reviewed and approved by the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
Utility service/minor.\ A service which is necessary to support development within the immediate vicinity and involve only minor structures. Included in this use type are distribution lines and small facilities that are underground or overhead, such as transformers, relay and booster devices, remote switching stations, well water, and sewer pump stations. (7-7-05; 5-27-10; Ord. No. 2012-10-C, 10-18-12; 3-20-14; 7-17-14; 11-17-16; 7-19-18; 11-15-18.)