M-2
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right43
- Accessory use and building as defined
- Manufacture or assembly plant for small equipment
- Heavy equipment sales and service
- Commercial greenhouse
- Contractor's equipment storage yard and office
- Manufacture, compounding, processing of apparel, agricultural produce, bakery goods, candy, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceutical, toiletries, food products, musical instruments, toys, pottery, baskets, figurines or other similar ceramic products
- Bank and saving and loan association
- Restaurant
- Office building
- Warehousing and wholesale commercial use
- Heliport
- Laboratory (pharmaceutical or medical)
- Research and development facility
- Trade school
- Public service corporation transmission lines, poles, pipes, meters, transformers and other facilities necessary for the transmission and maintenance of public service utilities
- Bottling work
- Monument work
- Manufacture or finishing of modular units made from wood or other materials and designed for use as components in building construction of all types, including furniture
- Petroleum storage
- Drive-in theater
- Moving or storage facility
- Truck terminal
- Coal and wood yard
- Welding or blacksmith shop
- Permanent sawmill or planing mill
- Septic tank sales, service and manufacturing
- Wood preserving operation
- Manufacture of brick or cinder block
- Small wind energy system
- Commercial slaughterhouse
- Retail Store
- Service Business
- Public Use
- Public Services
- Light Process/Industrial
- General
- Indoor shooting range and fuel distribution for wholesale and retail
- Mobile home and travel trailer sales and service
- Indoor health club
- Day care center
- Office trailer
- Automobile sales and rental
- Small wind energy system with a tower height of greater than 60 feet to 100 feet
Conditional / special use11
- Natural resource extraction and processing
- Concrete batching plant
- Asphalt plant
- Meat, poultry and fish processing
- Crushed stone operation or quarrying
- Auto, truck and farm equipment junkyard
- Public service corporation generating, booster, or relay station (Main)
- Other general industrial use of a similar nature not specifically enumerated
- Office trailer
- Indoor health club
- Biodiesel fuel production for wholesale or retail sale
Accessory1
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Frontage
The minimum frontage for permitted uses shall be 100 feet at the building setback line.
Height
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. near lot line15 ft
No accessory building which is within 20 feet of any party lot line shall be more than 15 feet high.
- Increased side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for buildings over 40 feet
When a building exceeds 40 feet in height, side and rear yard setbacks shall be increased by one foot for each one foot in height above 40 feet.
- Maximum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.50 ft
Buildings may be erected up to 50 feet in height from the average adjacent ground elevation.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public buildings60 ft
A public or semi-public building such as a school, church, library, or hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet, provided that required front, side, and rear yards shall be increased one foot for each foot in height over 40 feet.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
No accessory buildings are permitted in the front of the setback line for the main building.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from side/rear property line20 ft
No accessory building shall be closer to a side or rear property line than 20 feet.
- Entrance spacing on Virginia primary roads600 ft
The centerline of any entrance onto a Virginia primary road shall be 600 feet or more from the centerline of any adjacent entrance.
- Entrance spacing on U.S. Route 29900 ft
The centerline of any entrance onto U.S. Route 29 shall be 900 feet or more from the centerline of any adjacent entrance.
Eighty percent of lot, provided off-street parking and loading space is sufficient to accommodate the use proposed.
- Maximum lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. for buildings over 50 feet50 pct
Fifty percent of the lot for any building in excess of 50 feet in height.
Setback
- Increased side and rear yards adjacent to residential/agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them./conservation zones100 ft
The minimum side and rear yards shall be 20 feet except that when the permitted use adjoins or is adjacent to a residential, agricultural, or conservation zone, the minimum side and rear yards shall be 100 feet.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way or centerline
Structures shall be located 50 feet or more from any street right-of-way which is 50 feet or greater in width and 75 feet or more from the center line of any street right-of-way less than 50 feet in width.
From the ordinance
In the Industrial, General District M-2, no building shall be erected or altered and no building or premises shall be used for any purpose except: ...