CODE OF VIRGINIA

ZONING ORDINANCES GENERALLY (§ 15.2-2280)

Any locality may, by ordinance, classify the territory under its jurisdiction or
any substantial portion thereof into districts of such number, shape and size as
it may deem best suited to carry out the purposes of this article, and in each
district it may regulate, restrict, permit, prohibit, and determine the
following:

   1.  The use of land, buildings, structures and other premises for
   agricultural, business, industrial, residential, flood plain and other
   specific uses;

   2.  The size, height, area, bulk, location, erection, construction,
   reconstruction, alteration, repair, maintenance, razing, or removal of
   structures;

   3.  The areas and dimensions of land, water, and air space to be occupied by
   buildings, structures and uses, and of courts, yards, and other open spaces to
   be left unoccupied by uses and structures, including variations in the sizes
   of lots based on whether a public or community water supply or sewer system is
   available and used; or

   4.  The excavation or mining of soil or other natural resources.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 15-819, 15-844, 15-968; 1962, c. 407, § 15.1-486;
1966, c. 344; 1969, Ex. Sess., c. 1; 1972, c. 789; 1975, c. 641; 1997, c. 587.