Norton, Virginia · General provision

26.1-15-2

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 25 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 right1

  • Any use permitted in a light industrial zone and not specifically prohibited in this section

Conditional / special use8

  • Blast furnaces
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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

Other

From the ordinance

In all residential and industrial zones as shown on the zoning map, there shall be a fifty-foot setback from primary highways; otherwise a twenty-five-foot setback of buildings and structures. No minimum lot sizes are prescribed for lots used for business and industry.
26.1-15-2

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Industrial operations for the manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of chemicals, petroleum, coal and allied products; clay, stone, and glass products; food and beverages, metal and metal products, textiles, fibers and bedding; wood and paper products, rubber and paint products and any similar industrial uses which are not likely to create any offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influences and are not in conflict with any state law or provision of this Code or other ordinance"
    ],
    "conditional_uses": [
      "Manufacture or refining of ammonia; bleaching powder; chlorine; 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, 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 and varnish",
      "Storage of explosives and 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 (all such storage must comply with the NFPA Life Safety Code, as amended)"
    ]
  }
}