machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding forty-ton rated capacity and drop hammers; (d) Laboratories, pharmaceutical or medical ; (e) Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed
Read it in the chapter →Land use · Independence, Virginia
laboratories, pharmaceutical or medical
How this ordinance defines it
The operative definition is the local one. Codes routinely subdivide a category into tiers — “day care 2, family”, “group home 2” — and attach different permissions to each, so only Independence’s own text settles what this covers.