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Big Stone Gap, Virginia · General provision

Section 11. I Industrial District

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Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 75 ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
75 ft

Uses

Permitted by right54

  • Any agricultural, business, commercial or office uses permitted in the B-1 or B-2 Business Districts
  • Dwellings for resident watchmen and caretakers employed on the premises
  • 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 service, radiator repair and cleaning, tire retreading, recapping and vulcanizing
  • Boats, bolts, buttons, nuts, screws, and rivets, ornamental iron products, firearms, tools, dies, machinery, and hardware products, sheetmetal products, and vitreous enameled metal products
  • Boxes, containers, furniture, cabinets, baskets, and other wood metal, fiber or plastic products of similar nature
  • Building materials (cement, lime in bags or containers), sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural or reinforcing steel, pipe (and the like) storage and sales, open or enclosed, but not manufacture or steel fabricating or junk storage
  • Carpets, rugs, mats, bedding, mattresses, pillows, quilts, millinery, hosiery, clothing and fabrics, printing, and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods
  • Cleaning and dyeing of garments, hats, carpets and rugs
  • Coal and wood yards, coke storage and sales but not manufacture
  • Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors
  • 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
  • Fertilizer storage in bags or bulk storage of liquid or dry fertilizer in tanks or in a completely enclosed building, but not manufacture or processing
  • Flour, storage, blending and packaging, but not milling
  • Grain storage, blending and packaging, but 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 industrial and household chemical elements (blending only)
  • Kennels, boarding or otherwise
  • Laboratories, research, experimental or testing but not including combustion engine testing
  • Laundries, linen service
  • Leather goods manufacture, but not including tanning operations
  • Lumber yard, planing and millwork
  • Monuments and architectural stone
  • Paper and paperboard (from paper machine only) but 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, but not manufacture of paper
  • Poultry packing and slaughtering (wholesale)
  • Radio or television broadcasting station, studios, offices, towers
  • Railroad switching yard, primarily for railroad service in the district, 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, but not soap manufacture
  • Stone products, sand and gravel, but 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 use3

Accessory1

  • Storage of goods or materials used in or produced by permitted commercial and industrial uses or related activities

Prohibited1

Extracted standards

11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Signage

From the ordinance

If street is less than 50 feet in width front yard shall be at least 75 feet measured from center line.
Section 11. I Industrial District

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "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, but not distilling of beverages or slaughtering of animals"
    ]
  }
}