Richmond, Virginia · District

M-2

M-2 Heavy Industrial District
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Dimensional standards

M-2 lot requirementsSTREETRear 50 ftSide 50 ftMAX HEIGHT45 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.

Uses

Permitted by right2

Conditional / special use18

Extracted standards

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

Height

Other

  • Automobile junkyards and similar uses involving outside storage of scrapped or junked materials shall be screened from view from public streets, public spaces and adjacent properties in an R or RO district by opaque structural fences or walls not less than six feet in height.

  • Nuisance prohibition

    No building or premises shall be used for any purpose permitted in the M-2 district in such a manner as to constitute a nuisance by the creation of unreasonably loud and disturbing sound or noise; unreasonable vibrations; unreasonable danger from explosion or fire; or the unreasonable emission of smoke, odor, dust, heat or glare.

  • Where a side lot line abuts property in an R district, there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative screen or opaque structural fence or wall not less than six feet in height erected along such lot line, but not within 15 feet of any street line.

From the ordinance

No building or structure shall exceed 45 feet in height... Where a side lot line abuts property in an R district, there shall be a continuous evergreen vegetative screen or opaque structural fence or wall not less than six feet in height...
Sec. 30-454.1, 30-454.5, 30-454.6