M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right32
- Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs
- Manufacture of small parts such as coils, condensers, transformers, and crystal holders
- Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, or battery manufacture
- Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop (excluding punch presses exceeding forty-ton rated capacity and drop hammers)
- Fabrication of metal products
- Laboratories, pharmaceutical and/or medical
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products (other than meat packing or processing plant)
- Vegetative rubbish recycling facility
- Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products (using only previously pulverized clay, kilns fired only by electricity or gas)
- Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps
- Building materials, plumbing supplies, storage yards with or without sales
- Coal and wood yards, lumberyards, feed and seed stores
- Contractors' equipment storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors
- Cabinet, furniture and upholstery shops
- Draying and freighting or trucking yard or terminal
- Cotton spinning mills
- Boat building
- Stone works
- Glass manufacture
- Sawmill
- Veterinary or dog or cat hospital, kennels
- Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses
- Business signs advertising sale or rent of premises, only (up to 64 square feet)
- Business signs (up to 64 square feet)
- Directional signs
- Location signs
- Automobile graveyard, class B
- Communication towers (subject to Article 20)
- Small wind energy system (per Article 22)
- Distillery
- Brewery
- Winery
Conditional / special use14
- Abattoir
- Airport
- Automobile graveyard, class C
- Borrow pit
- Food or meat packing or processing plant
- General advertising signs
- Lattice structure used to support a wind turbine
- Public and/or private penal, detention facilities
- Quarrying
- Restaurant
- Two (2) or more small wind energy system(s) (per Article 22)
- Composting, commercial
- Small wind energy system(s) on a parcel of land twenty (20) acres or larger in size with a height greater than one hundred (100) feet but less than one hundred ninety-nine (199) feet
- Residential quarters for bona fide caretaker
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Enclosure requirement for permitted uses
Permitted uses may be required to be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or an evergreen hedge between six (6) and ten (10) feet in height.
Other
Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area. The plans and execution must take into consideration traffic hazards. Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three (3) feet, and to within fifty (50) feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.
- Screening from adjacent districts
Sufficient area shall be provided to screen adequately permitted uses from adjacent business and residential district and for off-street parking of vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.
- Site plan approval required
Before a building and zoning permit shall be issued, a site plan of proposed development shall be approved by the Commission in conformance with Article 13 of this appendix.
Signage
- Maximum sign area64 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Business signs advertising sale or rent of premises, only. Up to sixty-four (64) square feet. Business signs. Up to sixty-four (64) square feet.
From the ordinance
No setback required except that a reasonable distance may be required where necessary to provide traffic sight lines or to preserve or to enhance the scenic character of a designated Virginia Byway. The minimum side and rear yards adjoining a boundary of a residential, agricultural or conservation district shall be twenty (20) feet or more.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials (bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals or stone, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarn, and paint)",
"Public utility: Generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines with support structures, wooden poles for electric, telephone lines and similar lines and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, water and sewerage installations and water storage tanks"
]
}
}