Mathews County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 10, § 175-10.5-10.6
General IndustrialAll Mathews County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right44
- Abattoirs/slaughter houses
- Accessory buildings and uses
- Agriculture (except fertilizers from brewery/sewage operations requiring CUP)
- Alternative support structures
- Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs
- Manufacture of small parts (coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders)
- Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire re-treading or recapping
- Automobile graveyards and dismantling facilities and junkyards
- Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop (excluding punch presses >40 ton and drop hammers)
- Boat building
- Boiler shops
- Book bindery
- Brick manufacture
- Building material sales yards, plumbing supplies storage
- Cabinets, furniture and upholstery shops
- Coal and wood yards, lumber yards, feed and seed stores
- Commercial fisheries
- Communications towers and facilities related to business use
- Concrete batch plant
- Contractors' equipment storage yards or plants or sale or rental of equipment
- Creamery
- Data poles
- Drainage, erosion and flood control facilities
- Engraving or printing plant
- Feed and flour mills
- Forestry
- General advertising, business and identification signs (subject to Article 13)
- Laboratories, pharmaceutical and/or medical
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of products such as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries and food products
- Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles from previously prepared materials (bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, yarn, paint)
- Manufacture of pottery and figurines or similar ceramic products (using previously pulverized clay and kilns fired by electricity or gas)
- Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps
- Meat, poultry and seafood processing and packing operations
- Mobile food vending vehicle
- Monumental stone works
- Motor vehicle sales and leasing as accessory use (with conditions)
- Petroleum storage operation, including by products
- Recycling location (dropoff)
- Sawmills and planing mills
- Self-storage facilities and offices
- Solid waste management facility (public or private construction/demolition/debris landfill, materials recovery facility, publicly owned sanitary landfill, transfer station)
- Utility use, minor
- Veterinary or dog or cat hospitals and kennels
- Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses
Conditional / special use9
- Aviation facilities
- Crushed stone operations
- Farmer's market
- Manufacture of cement and stone products
- Railroads and facilities
- Sand and gravel operations
- Sewage treatment systems (private) outside floodplain
- Use of fertilizers which are byproducts of brewery or sewage operations
- Utility use, major (except specific by right)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential or conservation10 ft
If abutting residential use or residential, rural or conservation zone, setback shall be 10 feet.
- Landscaping distance from intersecting streets50 ft
Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three feet and to within 50 feet from the corner or any intersecting streets.
- Maximum landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 ft
Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three feet and to within 50 feet from the corner or any intersecting streets.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Parapet walls are permitted up to four feet above the limited height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Permitted uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or evergreen hedge six feet in height.
Signage
- Maximum sign area for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. motor vehicle sales16 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One sign not to exceed 16 square feet per side is permitted.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 25,000 sq ft; front setback 50 ft from ROW; side/rear 50 ft; max coverage 70%; max height 50 ft.