Staunton, Virginia · District
I-3
Planned Industrial District
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Conditional / special use11
- Retail or service use directly serving industrial plants or employees
- Sleeping facilities for caretaker or night watchman employed on the premises
- Outdoor storage facilities for building materials, sand, gravel, stone, lumber; open storage of construction contractor's equipment, supplies, and manufactured goods
- Offices, businesses, or professional
- Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging, or treatment of bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products (within completely enclosed building)
- Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas (within completely enclosed building)
- Manufacture and maintenance of electric and neon signs, commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment, cornices, eaves, and the like (within completely enclosed building)
- Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps (within completely enclosed building)
- Auction house, except for sale of livestock
- Blacksmith shop and machine shop
- Wholesale or warehouse enterprise
Accessory1
- Buildings, structures, and uses accessory and customarily incidental to any of the above uses
Prohibited63
- Abattoirs or slaughterhouses
- Acid manufacture
- Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender works, truck repairing and overhauling, tire retreading or recapping and battery manufacturing
- Ammonia, bleaching powder, or chlorine manufacture
- Bag cleaning
- Batching plants for asphalt and portland cement concrete
- Blast furnace
- Boiler works
- Brick, tile or terra cotta manufacture not requiring ovens
- Candle manufacture
- Celluloid manufacture
- Coke ovens
- Crematory or reduction plant
- Creosote treatment or manufacture
- Dextrin, glucose, and starch manufacture
- Disinfectants, cattle dips, exterminators and insecticides manufacture, not including the compounding of the same
- Distillation of bones
- Dyestuff manufacture
- Fat rendering
- Feed mills
- Fertilizer manufacture, not including compounding
- Fireworks or explosives manufacture or storage, or the loading of explosives
- Fish smoke or curing
- Forge plant
- Foundry casting lightweight nonferrous metal not causing noxious fumes or odors
- Freighting or trucking yard or terminal
- Fuel manufacture
- Gas (illumination or heating) manufacture or storage in excess of 1,000 cubic feet
- Gelatin, glue, or size manufacture or process involving recovery from fish or animal material
- Glass manufacture
- Gunpowder manufacture or storage
- Hotels and similar inhabitable places
- Incineration or reduction of garbage, dead animals, outfall, or refuse other than by an authorized public agency
- Iron, steel, brass, or copper works or foundry
- Lampblack manufacture
- Lime, gypsum, cement, asphalt or plaster of paris manufacture
- Livestock market, auction or sales pavilion
- Match manufacture
- Oil, paint, turpentine, or varnish manufacture
- Ore reduction
- Planing mill
- Potash or washing soda manufacture
- Public utility service yard or electrical receiving or transforming station
- Pulp mills
- Petroleum products, refining, or storage
- Printing ink manufacture
- Pyroxylin plastics or celluloid manufacture, or explosive or inflammable cellulose or pyroxylin products manufacture
- Rendering plant or other comparable processing of fish or animal material
- Residential use
- Rolling manufacture
- Sale, storage, and sorting of junk, waste, discarded or salvaged materials, machinery or equipment, but not including processing
- Salt works
- Sawmill
- Smelting or refining of metals
- Soap manufacture
- Sulphurous, sulfuric, nitric, or hydrochloric, or other corrosive or offensive acid manufacture or their use except as accessory to a permitted industry
- Stockyards
- Shoe polish manufacture
- Tanning, curing, or storage of raw hides or skins, or leather dressing or coloring
- Tar distillation or manufacture
- Tire recapping or retreading
- Tar roofing or waterproofing manufacture
- Wool pulling or scouring
Extracted standards
4 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. for outdoor storage7 ft
Outdoor storage facilities and areas shall be screened by a minimum seven-foot-tall obscuring fence, wall or mass plantings
Other
- Buffer zone
Setback areas shall act as a buffer between adjacent residential and business uses. They shall be fully landscaped and maintained with grass, trees and shrubbery of sufficient height and density to serve as a screen between the planned industrial zone and the residential zone. The buffer zone shall not constitute a site-distance obstruction at street intersections. The buffer zone shall be considered a part of the lot area, but shall not be used for any business purpose such as buildings, parking lots, signs, or any accessory use. The buffer zone, upon completion of the development of any project, shall be at or near the same grade or plane which existed prior to the development of the planned industrial district property, unless otherwise expressly reviewed and approved by the planning commission and by city council.
Parking
Minimum off-street parking and loading requirements are as regulated in Chapters 18.125 and 18.135 SCC.
Signage
- Signage
Signage is as regulated in Chapter 18.140 SCC and shall be the same as those for industrial districts.
From the ordinance
The I-3 district is intended to permit industrial development where the use and its operation do not directly adversely affect nearby residential and business uses.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Manufacture, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from previously prepared materials (aluminum, bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious metals or stones, shell, rubber, textiles, tin, iron, steel, wood (excluding sawmill), yarn, and paint not involving a boiling process) (within completely enclosed building)"
]
}
}