Land use · Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia

light manufacturing and assembly plants

Named in 1 of this ordinance’s zoning districts.

How this ordinance defines it

The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Essex County Unincorporated’s own text settles what this covers.

provide areas in which the principal use of land and buildings is for light manufacturing and assembly plants including processing, storage, warehousing, wholesaling and distribution. It is the intent that permitted uses be conducted so that noise, odor, dust,

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Where it is allowed here

Permitted by right1

Allowed outright — no hearing needed.