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 uses permitted in B-1 or B-2 Business Districts
- Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers
- Abrasive wheels or stones, abrasive paper, cloth and related products
- Agricultural or farm implements, manufacture, sale, storage or repair
- 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 in bags), sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural steel, pipe storage and sales (not manufacture or junk)
- 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 (not manufacture)
- Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant
- Cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, soaps, drugs, 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 in bags or bulk in tanks or enclosed building (not manufacture)
- Flour, storage, blending and packaging (not milling)
- Grain storage, blending and packaging (not milling)
- Greenhouses, commercial, wholesale or retail
- Heating, ventilating, cooking and refrigeration supplies and appliances
- Ice manufacture, including dry ice
- Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related chemicals (blending only)
- Kennels, boarding or otherwise
- Laboratories, research, experimental or testing (not combustion engine testing)
- Laundries, linen service
- Leather goods manufacture (not tanning)
- Lumber yard, planing and millwork
- Monuments and architectural stone
- Paper and paperboard (from paper machine only, not pulp mills)
- 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 (not manufacture of paper)
- 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 (excluding all rubber and synthetic processing)
- Sawmill (including cooperage stock mill) stationary and planing mill
- Sign fabrication and painting shop
- Soap products (not soap manufacture)
- Stone products, sand and gravel (not crushing or grinding)
- 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 use5
- Potentially hazardous uses (require BZA approval after public hearing)
- 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 (special exception)
Accessory1
- Storage of goods or materials used in or produced by permitted commercial and industrial uses
Prohibited5
- New residential development (except dwellings for watchmen/caretakers)
- Junk storage (unless as potentially hazardous use)
- Manufacture of paper (pulp mills)
- Distilling of beverages
- Slaughtering of animals (except poultry packing as permitted)
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. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when street width less than 50 ft75 ft
If street is less than 50 feet in width front yard shall be at least 75 feet measured from center line.
Signage
- Maximum distance from existing business for billboard500 ft
No billboard shall be located more than five hundred (500) feet from an existing business.
- Billboard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from intersection or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary100 ft
No billboard shall be located within one hundred (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 twenty-five (25) feet of any street line.
- Maximum billboard sign 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 three hundred (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 thirty-five (35) feet.
- Maximum combined detached sign area for group300 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A group of three (3) or more contiguous stores or industrial uses may combine permitted detached sign area to provide a single detached sign if combined area does not exceed three hundred (300) square 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 one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (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 one hundred fifty (150) square feet and limited in height to thirty-five (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 (2) for each business on the premises, with sign area for each sign limited to five (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 fifty (50) square feet.
- Minimum distance between billboards along same side500 ft
No two billboard signs shall be located less than five hundred (500) feet apart along the same side of a street or highway.
From the ordinance
Side and rear yards required only if adjacent to a Residential District. If street is less than 50 feet in width front yard shall be at least 75 feet measured from center line.
Use details
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"Food products, candy, chewing gum, cocoa, coffee, tea, spices, beverage blending or bottling, bakery products, dairy products, cheese, ice cream, oleomargarine, fruit and vegetable processing, cider and vinegar, pickles, packing and processing of fish, seafood, meat and poultry (not distilling or slaughtering)"
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