Big Stone Gap, Virginia · General provision
Section 11 - I Industrial District
General IndustrialAll Big Stone Gap districts0
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right54
- any agricultural, business, commercial or office use permitted in B-1 or B-2
- dwelling for resident watchman or caretaker
- abrasive products
- agricultural or farm implements
- aircraft and aircraft parts
- aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabricating and forming, foundry products (electrical only), blacksmith shop
- animal hospital or animal pound
- automobiles, tractors, trucks, buses, truck trailers, motorcycles and bicycles, repair and assembly, transmission repair, radiator repair, tire retreading, recapping and vulcanizing
- boats, bolts, buttons, nuts, screws, rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, tools, dies, machinery, hardware products, sheetmetal products, vitreous enameled metal products
- boxes, containers, furniture, cabinets, baskets, and other wood, metal, fiber or plastic products
- building materials (cement, lime, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural steel, pipe) storage and sales
- carpets, rugs, mats, bedding, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, printing and finishing of textiles
- cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats, carpets and rugs
- coal and wood yards, coke storage and sales
- contractor's equipment storage yard or plant or rental
- cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, soaps, drugs, and pharmaceutical products (compounding only)
- electrical appliances or electronic instruments and devices, medical, optical or drafting equipment, toys, novelties, games, stamps, musical instruments, manufacture or assembly
- excelsior, wood fiber
- exterminating establishment
- facilities and structures necessary for rendering utility service (poles, wires, transformers, pipelines, conduits)
- fertilizer storage
- flour, storage, blending and packaging
- grain storage, blending and packaging
- greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail
- heating, ventilating, cooking and refrigeration supplies and appliances
- ice manufacture, including dry ice
- insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related industrial and household chemical elements (blending only)
- kennels, boarding or otherwise
- laboratories, research, experimental or testing
- laundries, linen service
- leather goods manufacture
- lumber yard, planing and millwork
- monuments and architectural stone
- paper and paperboard (from paper machine only)
- plating, electrolytic process
- plumbing supplies, manufacture, sale, or storage
- pottery and figurines or similar ceramic products and kilns (fired by electricity or gas only)
- printing, publishing and engraving, photographic processing or blueprinting
- pulp goods, pressed or molded (including paper mache products), paper products
- poultry packing and slaughtering (wholesale)
- radio or television broadcasting station, studios, offices, towers
- railroad switching yard, team tracks and spur tracks
- rubber products and rubber synthetic treated fabrics
- sawmill (including cooperage stock mill) stationary and planing mill
- sign fabrication and painting shop
- soap products
- stone products, sand and gravel
- structural iron and steel fabrication
- theaters, including open-air drive-in theaters
- truck terminal, freight
- wallboard and plaster, building insulation and composition flooring
- warehouses, wholesale houses and distributors, wholesale market
- wire rope and cable
- wood chip and fiberboard
Conditional / special use35
- adhesives, glue or size
- ammunition, and explosives storage
- automobile wrecking yard
- candles, including wax or tallow manufacture
- cider and vinegar
- concrete products or central mixing and proportioning plant
- distillery (alcoholic), breweries and alcoholic spirits (non-industrial)
- engine testing (internal combustion engines)
- explosives, ammunition and fireworks, and explosives storage
- extraction, processing, loading and transportation of coal and other minerals
- film, photographic
- flour, feed and grain milling
- foundry or forge plant
- galvanizing or plating (hot dip)
- glass and glass products
- hides and raw fur, curing, tanning, dressing, dyeing and storage
- insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, or related industrial or household chemical compounds
- junk yards, open or enclosed storage of junk
- leather tanning and curing
- linoleum and other hard-surface floor coverings (except wood)
- match manufacture
- meat or fish products, including slaughtering of animals or poultry or preparation of fish for packing
- oils, shortenings, and fats (edible), manufacture and storage
- paint, oil, shellac, turpentine, or varnish
- petroleum storage
- plastic material and synthetic resins, processing only
- railroad switching and classification yards, repairs and cleaning shops, round houses, power houses, interlocking towers, and fueling, sanding, and watering stations
- rubber products, natural or synthetic, including tires, tubes and similar products
- starch manufacture
- stockyard
- wood preserving treatment
- fire stations
- incinerator, industrial or public
- public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, sub-stations, and transmission lines
- accessory identification signs or general advertising signs advertising products produced on the premises
Accessory1
- storage of goods or materials used in or produced by permitted uses
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. if street less than 50 feet wide75 ft
If street is less than 50 feet in width front yard shall be at least 75 feet measured from center line.
- Side and rear yards required only if adjacent to Residential DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Side and rear yards required only if adjacent to a Residential District.
Signage
- Maximum distance from existing business500 ft
No billboard shall be located more than 500 feet from an existing business.
- Billboard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from intersection100 ft
No billboard shall be located within 100 feet of any intersection of street lines or the boundary of any Residential District.
- Billboard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street line25 ft
No billboard shall be located within 25 feet of any street line.
- Maximum billboard area300 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No billboard sign shall exceed 300 square feet in area.
- Maximum billboard heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
No billboard sign shall exceed a total height of 35 feet.
- Maximum detached sign area150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Detached signs, limited in area to 150 square feet and limited in height to 35 feet.
- Maximum detached sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
Detached signs, limited in area to 150 square feet and limited in height to 35 feet.
- Maximum marquee sign area5 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Marquee signs, if there are no projecting signs, two for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to 5 square feet.
- Maximum projecting sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Projecting signs, with sign area limited to 50 square feet.
- Minimum distance between billboards500 ft
No two billboard signs shall be located less than 500 feet apart along the same side of a street or highway.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses, accessory uses, signs, special use permits, special exceptions, lot size, yards, height, parking.
Use details
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"food products, candy, chewing gum, cocoa, coffee, tea and spices, beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, dairy products, cheese and ice cream, oleomargarine, fruit and vegetable processing and canning, cider and vinegar, pickles and vegetable relishes, packing and processing of fish, seafood, meat and poultry products"
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