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Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right24
- Retail or service use directly serving industrial plants or employees
- Adult business
- Business sign
- Building material sales yard and lumber yard
- Contractor's equipment storage yard or plant
- Freighting or trucking yard or terminal
- Outdoor storage facilities for coal, coke, building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber
- Public utility service yard or electrical receiving or transforming station
- Auction house (except sale of livestock)
- Tire recapping or retreading
- Co-location of telecommunication antenna
- Manufacture of bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, etc.
- Manufacture of articles from previously prepared materials
- Manufacture of pottery and figurines
- Manufacture and maintenance of electric and neon signs
- Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties
- Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, etc.
- Sale, storage, and sorting of junk, waste, discarded materials
- Blacksmith shop and machine shop
- Foundry casting lightweight nonferrous metal
- Planing mill
- Wholesale or warehouse enterprise
- Business and professional offices (in buildings constructed prior to September 1, 2019)
- Pet boarding facility
Conditional / special use2
- Solar energy facility
- Other uses of the same general character as permitted uses
Accessory1
- Buildings, structures, and uses accessory and customarily incidental to permitted uses
Prohibited6
- Residential use (except caretaker/night watchman sleeping facilities)
- Concrete batch plant
- Transit plant
- Livestock auction
- Sawmill
- Any use not listed as permitted or conditional
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Adult business minimum illumination2 fc
The interior shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures that illuminate every place patrons are permitted access with an illumination of not less than two-foot candles measured at floor level.
Noise
- Pet boarding soundproofing
All pet boarding facilities must be reasonably soundproofed from neighboring residential and commercial uses.
Other
- Adult business hours of operation
The business shall not begin service before 7:00 a.m. and shall close by 1:00 a.m. for adult movie theaters/nightclubs, and by 12:00 midnight for other adult businesses.
- Adult business minimum distance from protected uses500 ft
The business shall be located at least 500 feet away from any residential or agricultural-forestal zoning district, and at least 500 feet from the property line of any land used for a dwelling, school, park, etc.
- Adult business security camera requirement
The owner or operator shall operate and maintain a security camera and videotape or digital file system designed and installed by a private security service business licensed by the commonwealth of Virginia.
- Outdoor storage screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.7 ft
Outdoor storage facilities shall be screened by seven foot obscuring fence, wall, or mass plantings.
- Pet boarding fencing
All areas used by animals shall be adequately fenced so as to prevent their escape and provide screening for adjacent properties.
- Pet boarding outdoor exercise hours
Outdoor exercise areas, outdoor pet runs, or yards shall be restricted to the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Setback
- Minimum distance from residential or professional districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
No building may be constructed in this district within 50 feet of any residential or professional district.
- Rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential or professional districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
No building shall be located closer than 50 feet to that rear lot line if it abuts a residential or professional district.
- Side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting residential or professional districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
No building shall be located closer than 50 feet to that side lot line if it abuts a residential or professional district.
From the ordinance
No building or structure shall exceed four stories or 45 feet in height