Article 3, Section Q (M-I)
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Danville Regional Airport, Dan River
- Geographic extent
- All industrial uses fronting on or within the FAA impact area of the Danville Regional Airport and the Dan River shall be regulated by special permit. Also subject to Airport Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. and FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. Zoning Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. where applicable.
Uses
Permitted by right26
- Airport
- Aircraft-related industry
- Artisan/craftsman manufacturing
- Auto and light vehicle service establishments
- Contractor's offices, shops and storage yards
- Establishments for scientific research, development and training, or corporate offices
- Establishments for manufacturing, production, processing, assembly, compounding, cleaning, servicing, storage, testing, repair and distribution of materials, goods or products
- Gasoline sales establishments
- Heavy equipment sale, rental and service establishments
- Heavy vehicle service establishments
- Hotels and motels
- Light wholesale trade establishments
- Lumber yards and building material yards
- Metal fabrication
- Motor freight terminals
- Motor vehicle storage and impoundment yards
- Plant nursery
- Private training facilities and vocational schools
- Recycling centers
- Retail sales related to establishments permitted by-right
- Storage yards
- Truck or train terminal
- Uses permitted by right or by special use permit in the LED-I District
- Uses permitted by right or by special permit in the HR-C District
- Warehouses, including mini-warehouses
- Exterminator
Conditional / special use30
- Adult-oriented uses
- Asphalt mixing plant
- Automobile auction facility
- Blast furnace
- Bulk storage of flammable materials
- Bus and railroad terminals
- Coal, wood or wood distillation facilities
- Communication towers
- Concrete mixing and batching production
- Drive-in movie theaters
- Establishments for biomedical, biological and chemical scientific research, development and training
- Extraction, storage or distribution of mineral resources
- Fertilizer, lime or cement manufacturing
- Heavy public utility uses
- Heliports and helipads
- Junkyard
- Metal foundries, smelting, processing, fabrication and storage
- Power generation facility
- Private garbage incineration
- Public utilities and facilities
- Residential dwelling unit appurtenant to and contained within a commercial or industrial building for the specific use of a watchman or caretaker
- Sanitary landfill
- Soap manufacture
- Stockyards
- Tanning and curing of skins
- Use with lot frontage on the Dan River
- Use with lot frontage or within the aviation impact area of the Danville Regional Airport
- Veterinary hospitals, inclusive of boarding kennels
- Regional brewery
- Cemetery
Prohibited12
- Any other similar use which in the opinion of the City Council might be injurious or noxious
- Acid manufacture
- Ammonia and chlorine manufacturing
- Animal slaughterhouses
- Automobile salvage yard and other salvage yards
- Boiler works
- Fireworks or explosives manufacturing
- Herbicide manufacturing
- Insecticide manufacturing
- New residential uses
- Petroleum, asphalt or related product refining
- Pesticide manufacturing
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Environmental impact statement may be required
An environmental impact statement may be required for any permitted or special permit use.
Other
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from corner60 ft
On a corner lot, no curb cut shall be located closer than 60 feet to the curb line extended from the intersecting public street.
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from side or rear lot line20 ft
No curb cut shall be located closer than 20 feet to a side or rear lot line, unless a common curb cut serves adjacent uses, and in no instance shall the distance between separate curb cuts serving adjacent uses be less than 60 feet.
- Minimum spacing between curb cuts for freestanding use100 ft
A freestanding use shall have no more than two curb cuts on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of 100 feet between them.
- Geotechnical report required for shrink/swell soils
Any subdivision or lot which is proposed to be developed on shrink/swell soils shall require a geotechnical report to be submitted with the preliminary plat and plans.
- Landscaped buffer yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. required when adjacent to residential
A landscaped buffer yard shall be provided, with landscape materials and placement subject to final plan approval.
- Maximum combined building and outdoor storage/loading/display coverage60 pct
The combined building and outdoor storage, loading and display areas shall not exceed 60% of the total lot coverage.
- Maximum percentage of landscaped open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. from restricted land types50 pct
No more than fifty (50) percent of the landscaped open space shall consist of land classified as rivers, stream valleys, wetlands, slopes in excess of 30%, or drainage easements.
- Maximum percentage of lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. comprised of wetlands or water features10 pct
No M-I District lot shall be configured such that more than 10% of the prescribed minimum lot area is comprised of either wetlands or water features.
- Maximum outdoor storage/loading/display area as percentage of lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.30 pct
The outdoor area devoted to storage, loading and display of goods shall not exceed 30% of the total lot coverage, provided that the combined building and outdoor storage, loading and display areas shall not exceed 60% of the total lot coverage.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. and landscape plan required
An open space plan and landscape plan shall be submitted with applications for any land use governed by this district.
- Refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities
All refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities.
- Site plan approval required
All uses shall be subject to site plan approval.
Setback
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary50 ft
Where a lot is contiguous to property located in a residential district, all buildings shall have a minimum setback of 50 feet from common property lines.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. requirements may be reduced by special permit where abutting railroad
Side and rear yard requirements may be reduced by special permit where a side or rear yard abuts a railroad right-of-way.
From the ordinance
M-I, Industrial Manufacturing District is established to provide locations within Danville for future medium intensity industry as well as existing and future heavy intensity industry.