Norton, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 26.1-14-3

General CommercialAll Norton districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 0 ftRear 25 ftSide 7 ftMin width 50 ftMIN LOT AREA5,000 sq ftMIN FRONTAGE35 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.

Uses

Permitted by right4

Prohibited14

  • Storage of explosives or fireworks in excess of five hundred (500) pounds, storage of fuel gas or illuminating gas in excess of ten thousand (10,000) cubic feet except in a municipal or public service plant, and the storage of pyroxylin or articles thereof in excess of five hundred (500) pounds
  • Blast furnaces
  • Coalyards, junkyards or woodyards
  • Distillation of bones, coal, wood or tar or manufacture of any of their products
  • Drop forges
  • Fat, grease, lard or tallow manufacturing, refining or rendering
  • Flour mills or grist mills
  • Hot rolling mills
  • Incineration, reduction of dumpings of dead animals, garbage, offal or refuse, except by the city or the agents of the city or when accumulated and consumed on the same premises without the emission of odor
  • Lumberyards and mills
  • Production or refining of petroleum or other inflammable liquids and the storage of raw hides or skins
  • Slaughtering or eviscerating plants or stockyards
  • Tanning, curing or storage of raw hides or skins
  • Any other use detrimental to a neighborhood because of odor, smoke, dust, fumes, fire, vibration or hazardous because of danger of fire or explosion

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

From the ordinance

In all business zones, the minimum area of any lot for dwellings shall be five thousand (5,000) square feet to which shall be added five hundred (500) square feet for each family dwelling unit more than one (1) in the same building. ... maximum height for buildings is not limited except that heights above four (4) stories shall be subject to approval of the fire chief.
Sec. 26.1-14-3

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "prohibited_uses": [
      "Manufacture or refining of ammonia; bleaching powder; chlorine; asphalt; brick; terra cotta; tile or pottery (except in handicrafts); cement; gypsum; lime; plaster of paris; coke; creosote; dextrin; glucose; starch; dye; explosives and fireworks; fertilizer; fuel gas or illuminating gas in excess of one thousand (1,000) cubic feet per day except in a municipal or public service plant; gelatin or glue or size from fish or animal refuse or offal; hair; hydrochloric, nitric, picric, sulfuric and sulphurous acid; lampblack, linoleum or oil cloth; matches; pyroxylin or articles thereof; rubber or treatment thereof involving offensive odor, tar, turpentine or varnish"
    ]
  }
}