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PUBLIC HEARING: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE
On Monday, November 5, 1990, the Board of Supervisors of Rappahannock County will consider a series of proposed amendments to the Rappahannock County Zoning Ordinance.
The amendments are intended to comply with changes in statutory authority enacted by the 1990 session of the General Assembly of Virginia, or to enforce authority conferred on Rappahannock County by recent changes to enabling legislation.
The following amendments to the Rappahannock County Zoning Ordinance shall be considered: I. Amend Section 2.24 by adding:
C. A residential facility housing a group of not more than eight mentally ill, mentally retarded, or developmental^ disabled persons, in addition to staff, shall be considered for all purposes occupancy by a single family and may thus be located by right without conditions other than those applied to all single-family detached dwellings. For the purposes of this Section, mental illness, mental retardation and developmental disability shall not include current illegal use of or addiction to a controlled substance as defined in S54.1-3401 of the Code of Virginia, 1950 (as amended). A residential facility shall be deemed to be any group home or other residential facility for which the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services is the licensing authority pursuant to the Code of Virginia.
Newly constructed residential care facilities shall conform to the standards required for the appropriate use group as dictated by the National Building Code of the Building Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA) in addition to those requirements imposed by the DMHMRSAS.
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