Sec. 98-872(a)
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Bay door orientation
Bay doors shall be oriented away from streets and residential properties or screened from direct views by landscape means.
Environmental
- No hazardous conditions at property line
All manufacturing, industrial or storage uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous conditions at or beyond property line boundaries by reason of odor, dust, lint, smoke, cinders, fumes, noise, vibration, heat, glare, solid and liquid wastes, fire or explosion.
Lighting
- Outdoor lighting standards25 ft
Outdoor lighting shall be sufficient to protect public safety and shall comply with the standards of the Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Guidelines produced by the Virginia Crime Prevention Association and dated December 2004; however, no outdoor lighting fixture shall be installed, aimed, or directed to produce light or glare that spills over into neighboring properties or the public right-of-way that exceeds 0.5 foot candles within two feet of the property line of the light source. All site lighting fixtures shall be mounted a maximum of 25 feet above ground, shall be full-cutoff, as defined by the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA), and shall have fully shielded and/or recessed luminaires with horizontal-mount flat lenses that prevent upward light scatter and protect the dark night sky. All site lighting fixture styles and illumination levels shall be compatible with the architecture of the principal building on the site.
Noise
- Paging speaker direction
Outdoor paging system speakers shall be directed away from all residential property lines.
Other
- Access zoning consideration
Access to industrial uses, unless entirely via public roads, shall require the same zoning consideration as the use itself.
- Fire lanes for large structures30,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Structures of 30,000 square feet or greater shall have fire lanes surrounding the structure(s) unless approved otherwise by the fire chief.
- Incidental retail sales
Incidental retail sales of products manufactured or assembled on site shall be permissible as an accessory use.
- Off-street loading
Service drives or other areas shall be provided for off-street loading in such a way that in the process of loading or unloading, no truck will block the passage of other vehicles on the service drive or extend into any fire lane or other public or private drive or street used for circulation.
- Site maintenance
All manufacturing, industrial and storage uses and sites shall be operated and maintained in a neat and orderly manner, free from junk, inoperable equipment, trash, or debris (unless allowed by law otherwise). Buildings shall be maintained in a sound condition, in good repair and appearance. Weeds shall be cut as frequently as necessary, but not less than twice a year.
- State and federal permits
All necessary state and federal permits shall be obtained, or evidence that they are not required provided, prior to approval of any plan of development for industrial uses.
Parking
- Parking setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential property line35 ft
All off-street parking and loading space for limited industrial uses shall be located not less than 35 feet from any residential property line and shall be effectively screened from view from adjacent residential properties by landscaping, supplemented, as necessary, by appropriate fencing materials.
Setback
- Outdoor storage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line25 ft
Outdoor storage shall not be located closer than 25 feet to any property line.
From the ordinance
All off-street parking and loading space for limited industrial uses shall be located not less than 35 feet from any residential property line and shall be effectively screened from view from adjacent residential properties by landscaping, supplemented, as necessary, by appropriate fencing materials.