Madison County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
M-2
Industrial, General District M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right44
- 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
- Bottling work
- Monument work
- 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
- Drive-in theater
- Moving or storage facility
- Truck terminal
- Coal and wood yard
- Welding or blacksmith shop
- Permanent sawmill or planing mill
- Septic tank sales, service and manufacturing
- Wood preserving operation
- Manufacture of brick or cinder block
- 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
Conditional / special use11
- Natural resource extraction and processing
- Concrete batching plant
- Asphalt plant
- Meat, poultry and fish processing
- Crushed stone operation or quarrying
- Auto, truck and farm equipment junkyard
- Public service corporation generating, booster, or relay station (Main)
- Other general industrial use of a similar nature not specifically enumerated in this article of the ordinance
- Office trailer
- Indoor health club
- Biodiesel fuel production for wholesale or retail sale
Accessory1
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building within 20 feet of party lot line15 ft
No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any party lot line shall be more than 15 feet high.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. increase for building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. over 40 feet1 ft/ft
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. for public or semi-public building60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, library, or hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building location relative to front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. line
No accessory buildings are permitted in the front of the setback line for the main building.
- 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
no accessory building shall be closer to a side or rear property line than 20 feet
- Minimum distance between entrances on Virginia primary road600 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 distance between entrances 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
Off-street parking and loading is subject to sections 14-9 and 14-10 of this ordinance.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from center line of street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width75 ft
75 feet or more from the center line of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way 50 feet or greater in width50 ft
Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjoining residential, agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them., or conservation zone100 ft
when the permitted use adjoins or is adjacent to a residential, agricultural, or conservation zone, the minimum side and rear yards shall be 100 feet
Signage
- Sign regulations
Signs shall conform to Article 12 of this ordinance.
From the ordinance
In the Industrial, General District M-2, 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)"
]
}
}