Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
M-3
Heavy Industrial District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right15
- Any use permitted in M-2
- Manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, fabrication or treatment of various products (abrasives, adhesives, alcohol, asphalt, etc.)
- Acetylene generation and storage
- Distillery
- Engine testing (internal combustion engines)
- Mulch processing facility (subject to conditions)
- Research and development in physical, engineering and life sciences
- Parking garages, commercial or public
- Private clubs
- Propane storage and distribution
- Railroad car and locomotive building and repair
- Railroad switching and classification yards
- Refractories
- Sand and gravel storage and distribution
- Sawmills and planing mills
Conditional / special use22
- Any conditional use permitted in A-1 or B-1
- Manufacturing of asbestos, chemicals, explosives, etc.
- Atomic laboratories
- Automobile wrecking yard
- Car wash or vehicle washing facility
- Incinerator, industrial or public
- Junkyards
- Materials recovery facilities
- Petroleum storage
- Private power generation plants
- Radioactive waste handling
- Steam generation plants
- Storage of dead animals, offal, garbage
- Stockyard
- Stone crushing and grinding
- Testing of jet engines and rockets
- Truck stops
- Tier 2 battery energy storage systems
- Solar energy facility, supplementary, ground-mounted
- Truck terminal
- Warehousing, storage, wholesaling, and distribution with gross warehouse area >= 75,000 sq ft
- Vehicle and equipment storage
Accessory10
- Any permitted accessory use under M-2 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)
- Sale, display, and storage of used automobiles repaired on same lot (enclosed)
- Storage of goods or material 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
- New residential or commercial development (except specified adjuncts)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Mulch processing facility max support structure area5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No support structure shall exceed 5,000 square feet in area.
- Mulch processing facility minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum lot area shall be five (5) acres
- Mulch processing facility operating hours
No machinery or equipment related to the facility shall be operated between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
- Mulch processing facility setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from off-site residential250 ft
No such facility shall be located within 250 feet of an existing off-site residential structure
From the ordinance
All structures not specifically exempted in Section 26-248 shall not exceed a height of fifty (50) feet.