M-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right13
- vehicle manufacturing
- welding or machine shop
- wood preserving operations
- cement, lime and gypsum manufacturing
- fertilizer manufacturing
- petroleum storage facility
- asphalt mixing plant
- stationary sawmill
- brick manufacturing
- boiler shop
- meat and poultry processing
- furniture manufacturing
- temporary mobile home or travel trailer during construction
Conditional / special use3
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. development restriction
Whenever possible, land subject to periodic flooding shall not be developed for any use that might involve danger to health, life or property or aggravate floods.
- Storm water 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 that control or manage runoff from such developments.
- Stream protection corridor width100 ft
All new development or redevelopment shall provide a one hundred-foot naturally vegetated stream protection corridor along all tributary streams.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
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.
Noise
- Maximum noise level
All sources of noise must not create sound or impact noise levels in excess of the values specified below when measured at the points indicated. Between 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., permissible sound levels at residential district boundaries shall be reduced by five (5) decibels.
Other
- 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.
- Maximum smoke opacity (Ringelmann)2 Ringelmann
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 sixty-minute period shall not be permitted.
- Maximum toxic concentration10 pct
Toxic materials which are released shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the maximum permissible airborne concentration allowed an industrial worker when measured at any point beyond the lot line.
- Minimum distance from highway strip3,000 ft
Any use in an industrial district shall have access or at least three thousand (3,000) feet from any highway strip, in so far as possible.
- Radioactive emission restriction
There shall be no radioactive emission which would be dangerous to the health and safety of persons on or beyond the premises where such radioactive material is used.
- Electrical interference restriction
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.
- Glare restriction
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, except for signs and other lighting permitted by this section.
- Odor threshold 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.
- Open storage screening required
In so far as possible, all uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed structure or be completely screened. Finished or semi-finished products manufactured on the premises may be stored in the open if screened from the street and adjacent uses.
- Air pollution regulations
The rules and regulations of the State of Virginia shall apply.
- Water pollution regulations
The rules and regulations of the State of Virginia shall apply.
From the ordinance
The primary purpose of the M-2 district is to establish an area where the principal use of land is for heavy commercial and industrial operations.