Halifax, Virginia · District
M-2
Industrial, General District M-2
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 3%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right1
- Encourage the discontinuance of existing uses that would not be permitted as new uses under the provisions of this chapt
Conditional / special use35
- Any use permitted in B-1, B-2, or M-1 districts (except dwelling only for guard/caretaker/watchman)
- Dwelling for guard, caretaker, or watchman
- Acid manufacturing
- Asphalt mixing plant
- Boiler shops
- Brick manufacturing
- Bottling plants
- Business signs
- Cement, lime or gypsum manufacturing
- Community centers
- Conservation areas
- Crushed stone operations
- Distribution centers
- Facilities, activities and operations provided by a duly constituted unit of government
- Farming and agricultural uses
- Fertilizer manufacturing
- Fireworks or explosives manufacturing
- General advertising signs
- Ice manufacturing and packaging
- Junk storage
- Location signs
- Meat, poultry and fish processing
- Off-street parking as required
- Outdoor amusement/entertainment areas
- Paper and pulp manufacture
- Petroleum refining, including byproducts
- Petroleum storage
- Public utilities, and industrial waste disposal facilities
- Retail sales outlets within industrial-use buildings
- Sand and gravel operations
- Sheet metal and metal fabrication shops
- Small wind energy systems
- Truck terminals
- Wood-preserving operations
- Small scale solar energy facilities
Prohibited5
- Any use which might be injurious or noxious by reason of odor, fumes, dust, smoke, vibration, glare, noise, or other cause hazardous to health, welfare, and/or safety
- Expansion of nonconforming uses
- Ammonia and chlorine manufacturing
- Animal slaughterhouses
- New residential uses
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum enclosure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Permitted uses shall 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 six feet in height.
Other
- Maximum landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 ft
Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three feet.
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Parapet walls are permitted up to four feet above the limited height of the building.
- Minimum distance from street corner50 ft
and to within 50 feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.
From the ordinance
The primary purpose of the industrial, general, district M-2 is to establish an area where the principal use of land is for heavy commercial and industrial operations... All Uses in Zoning Districts M-1 and M-2 require a Conditional Use Permit.