Sec. 25-391 to 25-397
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right11
- Manufacture, processing, fabrication, testing and/or assembly of products
- Welding or machine shop
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of articles
- Laboratories, engineering, research, testing and developmental facilities
- Public utility generating, booster or relay stations
- Public utilities, ground-mounted or underground
- Conference or training center
- Commuter parking lot
- Bakery, commercial
- Workforce, technical and trade academy
- Solar energy facility, minor-scale, roof-mounted
Conditional / special use12
- Telecommunication tower
- Water or sewerage treatment plant
- Utility substation
- Government buildings, functions
- Radio and TV broadcasting, relay station
- Heliport
- Hospital
- Welding or machine shop including punch presses exceeding forty-ton rated capacity and drop hammers
- Day care center
- Recovered material processing facility
- Electric vehicle charging station
- Solar energy facility, minor-scale, ground-mounted
Accessory3
- Non-public uses intended for the benefit of employees and guests
- Public uses which are primarily for the purpose of promoting the products and/or services
- Agricultural uses accessory to on-site primary permitted uses
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Noise
- Noise compliance
Noise levels generated on-site shall comply with Article II Noise, of the Noise Ordinance of the Botetourt County Code.
Other
- Access through residential districts prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Lot access for RAM districts or lots shall not be provided through contiguous residential districts, residential areas of planned districts, or residential subdivisions in the A-1 or RR districts.
- Indoor operations required
All testing and manufacturing operations must take place within a completely enclosed building, unless permission for outside operations is specifically granted by the board of supervisors as a special exception use.
Forty (40) feet when parking is located behind principal building, when parking screened from public road view with berms and/or coniferous landscaping, or when parking lot landscaping is increased by at least fifty (50) percent over minimum requirements; otherwise building setback shall be eighty (80) feet plus distance of impervious surfaces.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district area: Ten (10) acres, except that subject to special exception approval, minimum district size may be reduced to no less than five (5) acres.
- Outdoor storage screening required
Outdoor storage areas, areas for collection of refuse and loading areas shall be screened from adjacent structures, roads and traffic arteries with hedges, dense planting, earth berms, changes in grade and/or wall. Fences shall not be allowed for screening purposes.
- Public water and sewer required
All development within the RAM district is required to be served by public or community water and sewer facilities which comply with current county and state health department standards.
- Underground utilities required
All utility lines, electric, telephone, cable lines etc. shall be placed under ground.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area: One (1) acre. Minimum lot width: One hundred (100) feet. Maximum floor area ratio: 0.50; impervious surfaces on any lot shall not exceed seventy (70) percent of the lot area. Building height: Sixty (60) feet.