M-2
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right17
- manufacturing
- sawmill
- planing mill
- contractor's equipment storage or yard
- rental of equipment used by contractors
- beverage processing, bottling, and distribution
- blacksmith shop
- welding shop
- machine shop
- bakery (commercial)
- dry cleaning plant
- heavy equipment, tractor-trailer, and specialty vehicle sales, rental, repair and accessory service
- motor vehicle service and repair (light and heavy)
- public utility service center
- contractor service establishment
- moving and storage company
- telecommunications tower (attached)
Conditional / special use18
- transitional use to A or R district
- telecommunication tower (freestanding)
- truck terminal
- truck complex
- water or sewerage treatment plant
- utility substation
- public recycling collection point
- government building
- radio and TV broadcasting station
- individual well and septic system
- trucking company
- heliport
- convenience center
- materials recovery facility
- transfer station
- electric vehicle charging station
- solar energy facility (minor-scale, ground-mounted)
- solar energy facility (utility-scale)
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Noise
- Noise compliance
Noise levels generated on-site shall comply with Article II Noise, of the Noise Ordinance of the Botetourt County Code.
Other
- Access restriction
Lot access for M-2 Districts or lots shall not be provided through contiguous residential districts, residential areas of planned districts, or residential subdivisions in the A-1 or RR districts.
- Default building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.80 ft
Otherwise building setback shall be eighty (80) feet plus distance of impervious surfaces.
- Indoor/outdoor operations
All manufacturing operations must take place within a completely enclosed building, unless permission for outside operations is specifically granted by the board of supervisors as a special exception use.
- Buildings over 45 feet
Buildings over forty-five (45) feet in height may be permitted by the board of supervisors as a special exception where building setback is increased five (5) feet for each additional foot over forty-five (45) feet plus such other conditions as the board of supervisors imposes.
- Minimum building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.40 ft
Forty (40) feet when parking is located behind principal building, when parking screened from public road view with berms and/or coniferous landscaping, or when parking lot landscaping is increased by at least fifty (50) percent over minimum requirements; otherwise building setback shall be eighty (80) feet plus distance of impervious surfaces.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district area: Ten (10) acres, except that subject to special exception approval, minimum district size may be reduced to no less than three (3) acres.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. size reduction
Reduction in the minimum district size from ten (10) acres to no less than three (3) acres.
- Parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above maximum4 ft
Parapet walls are permitted up to four (4) feet above the maximum height.
- Public water and sewer required
All development within the M-2 District is required to be served by public or community water and sewer facilities which comply with current county and state health department standards, unless granted a special exception permit under subsection 25-343(10).
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area: One (1) acre. Minimum lot width: One hundred (100) feet. Maximum floor area ratio: 0.50; impervious surfaces on any lot shall not exceed seventy (70) percent of the lot area. Building height: Forty-five (45) feet.