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Manassas Park, Virginia · District

I-2

I-2 Light industrial district
IndustrialLight IndustrialAll Manassas Park districts0

Dimensional standards

I-2 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA2 acMAX HEIGHT60 ft
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
87,120 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (2 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Height & bulk

Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.
60 ft

Uses

Permitted by right5

  • All permitted uses in the PF Public facilities district, except fleet storage facilities
  • All permitted uses in the B-2 General business district, except amusement places or theaters, automobile and truck tire sales and service, boat and boat trailer sales and storage, and funeral homes
  • Defense production businesses
  • Technology businesses
  • Research and development, excluding laboratories where animals or livestock are used for research

Conditional / special use7

Accessory1

  • Specialized retail supply and equipment repair related to or compatible with the uses permitted by right in this district

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • Loading dock screening

    Loading docks and garage doors for commercial businesses must be located so they are not visible from a public street.

  • Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. area as percentage of principal use25 pct

    Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted use on the same lot, for which the combined area may constitute up to twenty-five (25) percent of the total gross floor area of the principal use.

  • Trash receptacle screening

    All private trash receptacles must be located and/or screened so they are not visible from a public street.

  • Underground utilities

    All utilities shall be installed underground, except control instrumentation and substations, which must be effectively screened.

From the ordinance

The minimum lot size for the district shall be two (2) acres.
Sec. 31-20.A

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "accessory_uses": [
      "Retail activities and refreshment areas as a part of any of the uses permitted by right in this district, provided that any such activities are by their nature accessory to the permitted uses in this district"
    ],
    "permitted_uses": [
      "The manufacturing, assembling, compounding, processing, packaging, treatment, storage or distribution of products from materials, where such use is not likely to be dangerous or offensive because of odor, dust, fire, explosion, or other reasons, or uses equipment and/or processes that are not likely to produce objectionable noise, vibration, explosion, fire, smoke, or other effect"
    ]
  }
}