zoneoptics
Lawrenceville, Virginia · District

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Industrial, Limited District
IndustrialLight IndustrialAll Lawrenceville districts0

Dimensional standards

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

SideSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
20 ft

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
60 ft
Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage.
70%
Minimum landscaping
30%

Uses

Permitted by right20

  • Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs; manufacture of small parts such as coils, condensers, transformers, and crystal holders
  • Automobile painting, upholstery, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling
  • Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding 40-ton rated capacity and drop hammers
  • Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries and food products
  • Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas
  • Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and metal stamps
  • Coal and wood yards, lumber yards
  • Building material sales yards, plumbing supplies storage
  • Contractor's equipment storage yards or plants, rental or sales of equipment commonly used by contractors
  • Boat building and repair
  • Monumental stoneworks
  • Wholesale business, sheet metal shops, storage warehouse mills
  • Public utility generating booster or relay stations, transformers, substations, transmission lines and towers, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, and water and sewage installations
  • Enclosed laboratories and facilities for manufacturing, and research and development
  • Cabinet, furniture, upholstery shops if conducted within a completely enclosed building
  • Lumber and building supply (with storage within a completely enclosed building)
  • Plumbing and electrical supply (with storage within a completely enclosed building)
  • Machinery sales and service (under cover)
  • Veterinary hospitals or kennels
  • Office complexes, including rental office units

Conditional / special use2

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Buffering and screening

    Buffering and screening shall be in conformance with section 10-6.

  • Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on corner lots20 ft

    The side yard or corner lots shall be 20 feet or more.

  • Vision obstruction on corner lots

    On a corner lot a fence, wall, hedge, or other planting that will materially obstruct vision so as to create a traffic hazard shall be prohibited by the zoning administrator.

  • Enclosure of permitted uses

    Permitted uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six feet in height.

  • Landscaping in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

    Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area.

  • Satellite dish antenna heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.20 ft

    Satellite dish antenna: Private and commercial radio and television satellite dish antennas may be permitted to be constructed to a height not in excess of 20 feet only when installed at ground level, provided that such antenna shall be located behind the setback line of the main structure. All towers, antennas, guy anchorages or similar devices shall be at least three feet from any property line, except on the side yard facing the side street the setback requirement shall be 25 feet.

  • Screening from adjacent districts

    Sufficient area as determined by the zoning administrator shall be provided to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential districts and for off-street parking vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.

  • SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way

    Buildings shall be located 25 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width and 50 feet from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.

From the ordinance

Buildings may be erected up to 60 feet in height above the finished floor subject to building and fire code regulation. Buildings or groups of buildings with their accessory buildings may cover up to 70 percent of the area of the tract.
Article 7, Sections 7-1 through 7-10

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials such as bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fur, fiberglass, hair, horn leather, paper, glass, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarn, and paint",
      "Satellite dish antenna: Private and commercial radio and television satellite dish antennas may be permitted to a height not exceeding 20 feet when installed at ground level, located behind the setback line of the main structure; all towers, antennas, guy anchorages or similar devices shall be at least three feet from any property line, except on the side yard facing the side street the setback shall be 25 feet"
    ]
  }
}