M-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right32
- Accessory use and building as defined
- Manufacture or assembly plant for small equipment
- Heavy equipment sales and service
- Commercial greenhouse
- Contractor's equipment storage yard and office
- Manufacture, compounding, processing of apparel, agricultural produce, bakery goods, candy, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical, toiletries, food products, musical instruments, toys, pottery, baskets, figurines or other similar ceramic products
- Bank and saving and loan association
- Restaurant
- Office building
- Warehousing and wholesale commercial use
- Heliport
- Laboratory (pharmaceutical or medical)
- Research and development facility
- Trade school
- Public Service Corporation transmission lines, poles, pipes, meters, transformers, and other facilities necessary for the transmission and maintenance of public service utilities. Subject to Code of Virginia, § 15.1-456, as amended
- Small wind energy system
- Commercial slaughterhouse
- Light Process/Industrial (such as: cabinet maker and repair, cannery, commercial dairy, farm, winery with wholesale and/or retail sales, frozen food locker with processing, ice storage and supply, machine shop, welding or blacksmith shop)
- General (such as: accessory use and building as defined, office trailer temporary use, small wind energy system up to 60 feet)
- Indoor shooting range and fuel distribution for wholesale and retail
- Moving and storage facility
- Truck terminal
- Welding or blacksmith shop
- Septic tank sales and service
- Mobile home and travel trailer sales and service
- Indoor health club
- Day care center
- Office trailer
- Retail store
- Automobile sales and rental
- Small wind energy system with a tower height of greater than 60 feet to 100 feet
- Mixed Use Building(s). (Added in March 2020)
Conditional / special use10
- Any use requiring laboratory analysis and testing of animals, vegetables or minerals
- Manufacture or finishing of modular units made from wood or other materials and designed for use as components in building construction of all types, including furniture
- Petroleum storage
- Wood preserving operation
- Meat, poultry and fish processing
- Generating, booster or relay station (main)
- Other limited industrial use of a similar nature not specifically enumerated in this article of the ordinance
- Biodiesel fuel production for wholesale or retail sale
- Indoor commercial firearm and/or archery range facility
- Solar farm
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Additional heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. requires special use permitConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote.
Additional height above the stated height regulations requires a special use permit as provided for under Article 14-3.
- Increased side and rear yards for buildings over 40 feet
When a building exceeds 40 feet in height, side and rear yard setbacks shall be increased by one foot for each one foot in height above 40 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. exception for spires, belfries, etc.25 ft
Church spires, belfries, cupolas, monuments, water towers, fire towers, flues, flagpoles, television antennae, and radio aerials may exceed the height limit by no more than 25 feet.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. above building4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public or semi-public buildings60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, library, or hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet provided that required front, side, and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 40 feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side or rear property line20 ft
All accessory buildings must be located 20 feet or more from a side or rear property line.
- Front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for streets less than 50 feet in width75 ft
Structures shall be located 75 feet or more from the center line of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near party lot line15 ft
No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any party lot line shall be more than 15 feet high.
- Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. for buildings over 50 feet in heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.50 pct
Fifty (50) percent of the lot for any building in excess of 50 feet in height.
- Minimum entrance spacing on Virginia primary roads600 ft
The centerline of any entrance onto a Virginia primary road shall be 600 feet or more from the centerline of any adjacent entrance
- Minimum entrance spacing on U.S. Route 29900 ft
The centerline of any entrance onto U.S. Route 29 shall be 900 feet or more from the centerline of any adjacent entrance
- Side and rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjacent to residential, agricultureAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them., or conservation zone60 ft
When the permitted use adjoins or is adjacent to a residential, agriculture, or conservation zone, the minimum side and rear yards shall be 60 feet.
From the ordinance
In the Industrial, Limited District M-1, no building shall be erected or altered and no building or premises shall be used for any purpose except:
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Retail Store (such as: agricultural supply store, auction establishment, bakery, building material yard, drug store, furniture store, general store, gift and antique shop, hardware store, lumber and building supply with storage under cover, plumbing and electrical supply with storage under cover, wearing apparel store)",
"Service Business (such as: auto and home appliance service, automobile sales and rental, automobile service station, barber and beauty shop, car wash, caterer, day care center, dry cleaner, funeral home, indoor health club or fitness center, laundry and laundromat, machinery sales and service, mobile home or travel sales and service, print shop)",
"Public Use (such as: assembly hall, bank and saving and loan institution, church, clinic and nursing home, club and lodge, hospital, hotel, library, motel, office building, private school and day care center, public building, restaurant, theater, veterinary clinic/hospital with no outdoor facilities)",
"Public Services (such as: firehouse and rescue stations. Public Service Corporation transmission lines, poles, pipes, meters, transformers, and other facilities necessary for the transmission and maintenance of public service utilities (Subject to Code of Virginia, § 15.1-456, as amended), Water and sewage treatment or distribution facilities where same are required by state and/or federal regulations to protect the public health)"
]
}
}