Dinwiddie County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

M-1

Industrial District M-1

Dimensional standards

M-1 lot requirementsSTREETSTREETbuildable areaFront 10 ftSide 10 ftStreet side 20 ftMAX HEIGHT35 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE70%
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

Accessory2

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Administrator action time20 days

    The administrator shall act on any application received within 20 days after receiving the application.

  • They shall be allowed up to three years after adoption of such ordinance in which to completely screen, on any side open to view from a public road, the operation or use by a masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.

  • Screening of permitted uses

    Sufficient area shall be provided to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts and for off-street parking of vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.

From the ordinance

For permitted uses in industrial district M-1 utilizing individual sewage disposal systems, the required area for any such use shall be approved by the health official. Buildings in industrial district M-1 shall be located ten feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width... Buildings may be erected up to a height of 35 feet... Buildings or groups of buildings with their accessory buildings in industrial district M-1 may cover up to 70 percent of the area of the lot.
Sec. 22-212, 22-213, 22-214, 22-215, 22-216