M-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Uses
Permitted by right32
- accessory structures
- assembly of electrical appliances
- manufacture of small parts
- vehicle painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding and reconditioning
- truck terminals
- welding or machine shop
- dental laboratories
- manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging of cosmetics and toiletries
- manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials
- manufacture or assembly of musical instruments
- manufacture or assembly of toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps
- wood receiving and transporting yards
- contractors' equipment storage yard or plants
- manufacture and assembly of boats
- monumental stone works
- wholesale businesses and storage warehouses
- junkyard (screened)
- temporary mobile homes or travel trailers
- off-street parking
- public utility generating, booster or relay stations
- conservation areas
- office buildings for usage by industrial concerns
- self-storage facilities
- vocational and trade schools
- building materials, hardware, garden supply, nurseries, miscellaneous repair services
- retail sales of products produced on-site
- contractor's yard/covered outside storage only
- distribution center or warehousing
- temporary or portable manufacture processing and distribution of hot mix asphalt
- public works and utility buildings
- kennels, commercial (no outdoor confinement)
- veterinary hospital (no outdoor confinement)
Conditional / special use23
- airports, airfield, helistops, heliports
- kennels, commercial (with any outdoor confinement)
- private landing areas
- processing, compounding, packaging or treatment of consumable products
- radio, television or communication station and/or tower or related facilities
- vehicle manufacturing
- wood preserving operations
- stationary sawmills, planning mills
- motor freight transportation and warehousing
- textiles products
- manufacture of paperboard containers and boxes
- printing, publishing and allied industries
- fabricated metal products
- industrial and commercial machinery and computer equipment
- measuring analyzing and controlling instruments, photographic, medical and optical goods
- petroleum storage facility
- electric power generating facilities, public or private
- oil storage, bulk
- manufacture and assembly of boats
- landfill (CDD) (including inert waste)
- concrete mixing (dry-batch or central) facility
- veterinary hospital (with any outdoor confinement)
- manufacture of fertilizer
Accessory48
- Assembly of electrical appliances, heating and air conditioning units, electronic instruments and devices, radios and stereos, televisions and related components.
- Manufacture of small parts, such as coils, condensers and transformers.
- Vehicle painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding and reconditioning.
- Truck terminals, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping.
- Welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding forty-ton related capacity and drop hammers.
- Dental laboratories.
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging of cosmetics and toiletries.
- Manufacture or assembly of musical instruments.
- Manufacture or assembly of toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps.
- Wood receiving and transporting yards.
- Contractors' equipment storage yard or plants, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.
- Manufacture and assembly of boats.
- Monumental stone works.
- Wholesale businesses and storage warehouses.
- Junkyard (screened).
- Temporary mobile homes or travel trailers.
- Off-street parking.
- Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, and water and sewer installations.
- Conservation areas.
- Office buildings for usage by industrial concerns.
- Self-storage facilities.
- Truck terminals; providing the parking and loading areas are screened.
- Vocational and trade schools.
- Building materials, hardware, garden supply, nurseries, miscellaneous repair services.
- Assembly of electrical appliances, heating and air conditioning units, electronic instruments and devices, radios and stereos, televisions and related components.
- Manufacture of small parts, such as coils, condensers and transformers.
- Vehicle painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding and reconditioning.
- Truck terminals, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping.
- Welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding forty-ton related capacity and drop hammers.
- Dental laboratories.
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging of cosmetics and toiletries.
- Manufacture or assembly of musical instruments.
- Manufacture or assembly of toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps.
- Wood receiving and transporting yards.
- Contractors' equipment storage yard or plants, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.
- Manufacture and assembly of boats.
- Monumental stone works.
- Wholesale businesses and storage warehouses.
- Junkyard (screened).
- Temporary mobile homes or travel trailers.
- Off-street parking.
- Public utility generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, and water and sewer installations.
- Conservation areas.
- Office buildings for usage by industrial concerns.
- Self-storage facilities.
- Truck terminals; providing the parking and loading areas are screened.
- Vocational and trade schools.
- Building materials, hardware, garden supply, nurseries, miscellaneous repair services.
Extracted standards
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or evergreen hedge six (6) feet in height.
Noise
- Nighttime noise reduction5 dB
between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., the permissible sound levels at a residential district boundary where adjoining industrial districts, shall be reduced by five (5) decibels
Other
- Air pollution standard
The rules and regulations of the State of Virginia shall apply.
- Electrical interference prohibition
There shall be no electrical disturbance emanating from any lot which would adversely affect the operation of any equipment on any other lot or premises.
- Enclosure requirement
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 (6) feet in height.
- Certified engineer's report required
The applicant for a grading permit, sediment control permit, or building permit for uses in an industrial district, or applicants for variances to the district shall be required to submit proof that the uses proposed will not cause violations of federal, state or county laws or regulations.
- Glare prohibition
No direct or sky reflected glare, whether from flood lights or from high temperature processes such as combustion, welding or otherwise, is to be visible beyond the lot line
- Highway strip separation3,000 ft
Any use in an industrial district shall have access or at least three thousand (3,000) feet from any highway strip
- Landscaping setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from corner50 ft
Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three (3) feet and to within fifty (50) feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.
- Maximum landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 ft
Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three (3) feet and to within fifty (50) feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.
- Odor limit
The release of odorous matter from any industrial district across residential or commercial district boundary lines shall be so controlled that at ground level or at habitable elevations the concentration shall not exceed the odor threshold lines.
- Radioactivity prohibition
There shall be no radioactive emission which would be dangerous to the health and safety of persons on or beyond the premises
- Smoke duration limit4 min
darker than Ringelmann No. 2 for a period or periods aggregating more than four (4) minutes in any 60-minute period shall not be permitted.
- Smoke emission limit2 Ringelmann No.
Within one thousand (1,000) feet of a residence or commercial zoning district boundary line, the emission of visible smoke from any vent, stack, chimney, or combustion process, darker than Ringelmann No. 2 for a period or periods aggregating more than four (4) minutes in any 60-minute period shall not be permitted.
- Stormwater management required
No person shall develop any land for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional uses or redevelop land without having provided for appropriate storm water management measures
- Stream protection corridor100 ft
All new development or redevelopment shall provide a one hundred-foot naturally vegetated stream protection corridor along all tributary streams.
- Toxic material limit10 pct
toxic materials which are released shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the maximum permissible airborne concentration allowed an industrial worker
- Water pollution standard
The rules and regulations of the State of Virginia shall apply.
From the ordinance
In industrial district M-1, any structure to be erected or land to be used shall be for one (1) or more of the following uses... No structures in an M-1 district may be located closer to the centerline of any road right-of-way on any designated primary highway than one hundred (100) feet...