Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District

M-1

Heavy Industrial District

Dimensional standards

M-1 lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 20 ftMAX HEIGHT75 ftMAX LOT COVERAGE85%MAX FAR0.5MIN OPEN SPACE15%
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Uses

Permitted by right72

Conditional / special use27

Accessory7

Extracted standards

2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

From the ordinance

There shall be no minimum lot size. The maximum lot coverage shall be 85 percent, with a required minimum open space area of 15 percent. The maximum floor area ratio (FAR) shall be: 0.50. The maximum height for all structures shall be 75 feet. All buildings and other principal structures shall be set back at least 20 feet from all street rights-of-way; when the side or rear of a lot within a M-1 District abuts a commercial or office district, a minimum setback of 20 feet from the common property line shall be required; when abuts an agricultural or residential district, a minimum setback of 50 feet from the common property line shall be required.
Sec. 32-403.11, 32-403.12, 32-403.13, 32-403.14, 32-403.15

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Greenhouse or nursery, wholesale (not more than 20 percent of lot area may be devoted to garden center uses)",
      "Motor vehicle sales, rental or lease (unlimited), excluding passenger motor vehicles less than 7,500 pounds gross vehicle weight. Floor area devoted to storage of parts inventory used for service and repair shall not be included in secondary retail sales floor area calculations."
    ]
  }
}