In Chesterfield, the current zoning ordinance has been in place since 1989, but the core elements of the ordinance date back to the 1970s.

With the ongoing Zoning Ordinance Modernization project , otherwise known as ZOMod, the county is looking to modernize land-use categories, allow for more housing types and make the ordinance more user friendly.

Another key reason for updating the zoning ordinance is to align it with the county’s comprehensive plan , which serves as a guiding tool for a locality’s development.

Chesterfield made major changes to the comprehensive plan in 2012 but still needed to bring the zoning ordinance — the legal framework — up to speed.

“One of the very first things in that plan we adopted was to relook at the zoning ordinance, because now we had a vision, b

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