Petersburg, Virginia · District
MXD-2
MXD-2 Mixed Use District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right33
- single-family residences
- two-family residences
- residential townhouses
- short-term rental of existing dwelling (subject to Article 39)
- retail, shopkeeper, commercial office uses as permitted in MXD-1
- any use permitted in MXD-1
- auto assembly (custom orders only)
- tool, die, gauge and machine (2,500 square feet maximum)
- tools and hardware products
- hand forged ironwork
- wholesale houses and distributors
- small engine manufacturing and repair
- bedding manufacturing, retailing, and wholesaling
- handknitting
- weaving
- printing
- contractors, building and painting (no open storage yards)
- greenhouse, commercial
- leather goods manufacturing (no tanning)
- auto parts manufacturing, retailing and wholesaling
- furniture upholstering
- baskets and hampers manufacturing
- handcrafted furniture manufacturing
- furniture refinishing (in enclosed building)
- handcrafted clay, stone, glass, pottery, porcelain
- railroad activities as specified in Article 5, Section 2, paragraph (8)
- laundry and laundromats
- feed and seed, retail and wholesale
- bakery (2,500 square feet maximum)
- cosmetics, manufacturing (2,500 square feet maximum)
- ice manufacturing (2,500 square feet maximum)
- public utilities
- accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to permitted uses
Accessory1
- accessory buildings and uses customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to permitted uses
Prohibited30
- insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants, and related industrial and household chemical compounds manufacturing
- concrete products manufacturing
- fish, shrimp, oyster and other seafood processing, packing and storing and curing
- malt products manufacturing
- meat products, packing and processing and slaughtering
- poultry packing and slaughtering
- concrete and metal culvert manufacturing
- firearms manufacturing
- electrolytic plating
- sheet metal products manufacturing
- silverware and plateware manufacturing
- box and crate manufacturing
- planning and millwork
- trailer, carriage and wagon manufacturing
- animal pound or hospital or veterinarian
- commercial animal, poultry and bird raising
- building materials such as cement, lime, sand, gravel and lumber storage and sales
- bus garage and repair shop
- circus
- coal and coke storage sales
- fur finishing
- kennels
- livery stables and riding academy
- plastic fabrications
- produce and storage warehouse
- freight truck and transfer terminal
- chemical manufacturing, storing and distribution as principal use
- material salvage operations
- outdoor advertising or billboard structures
- rendering facility
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Where a side or rear lot line abuts a residential property there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative or opaque structural fence or screen not less than six (6) feet in height erected along such a lot line, but not within fifteen (15) feet of any street line.
- Screening setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street line15 ft
but not within fifteen (15) feet of any street line.
From the ordinance
The purpose of this district is to permit a mixture of diverse land uses such as residential, retail, shopkeeper, commercial office and light industrial to co-exist in a compatible environment.