Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
M-2
Light Industrial District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right40
- Any use permitted in B-0, B-1, or M-1
- Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of various products (containers, paper, disinfectants, etc.)
- Agricultural or farm implements manufacture, display, sale, storage or repair
- Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication and forming
- Animal hospital
- Automobile repair services (body, radiator, general, tire, transmission)
- Blacksmith shop
- Boat and boat trailer sales
- Brewery
- Carpet and rug cleaning
- Coal and wood yards
- Coating, engraving, and allied activities
- Commercial and industrial machinery sales/rental
- Commercial landscaping operation
- Construction equipment sales/rental
- Vehicle and equipment storage (in industrial park approved before May 28, 2025)
- Craft brewery
- Dry cleaning plants
- Exterminating establishment
- Fertilizer storage
- Furniture refinishing
- Grain storage
- Greenhouses, commercial
- Industrial gases storage (limited)
- Industrial vocational training school
- Insecticides and fungicides (blending only)
- Kennels
- Laundry and linen services
- Lumber and building material storage/sales
- Lumber yards
- Millwork
- Poultry packing and slaughtering (wholesale)
- Product finishing
- Railroad switching yard
- Recreational vehicle sales/rentals
- Tire sales and service
- Transportation equipment manufacturing
- Truck sales and repairs
- Water well drilling services
- Welding or soldering shops
Conditional / special use17
- Any conditional use permitted in A-1 or B-1
- Carwash or vehicle washing facility
- Parking garages, commercial or public
- Private power generation plants
- Propane storage and distribution
- Sports and recreational instruction (outdoor)
- Stable or riding academy
- Storage, transfer and distribution of industrial gases (large quantities)
- Theaters, including drive-in theaters
- Truck stops
- Wholesale motor vehicle auction
- Tier 2 battery energy storage systems
- Solar energy facility, supplementary, ground-mounted
- Vehicle and equipment storage
- Truck terminal
- Warehousing, storage, wholesaling, and distribution with gross warehouse area >= 75,000 sq ft
- Recreational substances, retail stores
Accessory9
- Any permitted accessory use under B-0, B-1, or M-1 regulations
- Office or construction trailers for period not to exceed 1 year
- Parking garages, accessory to permitted uses
- Promotional events (with permit, max 3 consecutive days)
- Storage of goods or materials used in or produced by permitted uses
- Telecommunications arrays on existing structures
- Tier 1 battery energy storage systems
- Solar energy facility, accessory, ground-mounted or roof-mounted
- Solar energy facility, supplementary, roof-mounted
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- All uses conducted within completely enclosed building
All uses shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with no open storage of raw, in process, or finish material and supplies or waste material.
- Loading operations location
Loading operations shall be conducted at the side or rear of buildings.
From the ordinance
All structures not specifically exempted in section 26-248 shall not exceed a height of three (3) stories or forty-five (45) feet, whichever is less.