Galax, Virginia · District
M-2
Industrial Heavy M-2 District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right20
- all uses permitted in Industrial Light (M-1) District
- truck terminals
- boiler shops
- wood-preserving operations
- abattoirs
- acid manufacture
- cement, lime and gypsum manufacture
- fertilizer manufacture
- petroleum refining, including by-products
- petroleum storage
- asphalt mixing plant
- sawmills and planing mills
- paper and pulp manufacture
- brick manufacture
- junk storage (screened)
- meat, poultry and fish processing
- off-street parking
- public utilities
- accessory uses
- business and identification signs
Conditional / special use3
Accessory1
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Evergreen trees on residential boundary
Landscaping in the form of evergreen trees shall be maintained on property lines joining any residential district boundary.
- Off-street turning and unloading
the size shall be sufficient to handle the off-street turning and unloading of trucks and parking as required and in compliance with sewer or setback requirements.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.10 ft
wherever a building is built upon a lot adjacent to a residential district boundary, there shall be provided a side yard of 10 feet or more on the side of the building adjacent to the district boundary line.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on corner lot facing street20 ft
On corner lots, the side yard which faces on a street shall be 20 feet or more.
From the ordinance
Industrial Heavy M-2 District: permitted uses, conditional uses, area 10,000 sq ft, setbacks 20 ft, frontage 100 ft, height 45 ft, lot coverage 70%.