Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right90
- The use provides cultural or recreational opportunities for employees;
- The use provides day care or preschooling for the children of the employees;
- The use is a restaurant or a convenience retail use;
- Animal pound/animal shelter
- Boathouse
- Health club/physical fitness facility
- Natural area preserve
- Safety services
- Schools, nursery or preschool
- Flex-space
- Office parks
- Offices
- Animal hospital
- Banks
- Contractors and trade shops (Indoor operations and storage)
- Convenience stores (as part of an office structure)
- Delivery and dispatch services (vehicles on-site)
- Heavy truck, construction equipment sales (wholesale and retail)
- Mini-warehouse
- Rental services other than passenger vehicles: indoor display/storage
- Rental services other than passenger vehicles: outdoor display or storage
- Day care center (commercial)
- Fire station
- Government offices
- Health club, gym, fitness center
- Hotel/motel
- Library
- Park, playground, or recreational area (public)
- Place of worship
- Post office
- Public safety facility
- School, elementary or middle
- School, high
- Utility facility, minor
- Agricultural supply and equipment sales
- Antique shops
- Appliance repair
- Art galleries
- Artisan manufacturing
- Auto parts store
- Automobile repair, minor
- Bank or financial institution
- Barber shop/beauty salon
- Building materials sales
- Business support services
- Catering establishment
- Convenience store
- Day spa
- Department store
- Drug store/pharmacy
- Dry cleaning/laundry
- Florist
- Furniture store
- Garden center
- General merchandise store
- Grocery store/supermarket
- Hardware store
- Home improvement center
- Jewelry store
- Laundromat
- Medical/dental office
- Microbrewery/micro-distillery (accessory tasting room)
- Office, general
- Office, professional
- Pet store
- Pharmacy
- Restaurant, fast-food (no drive-through)
- Restaurant, sit-down/delicatessen
- Retail store, general
- Indoor operations and storage, assembly
- Indoor operations and storage, food products
- Indoor operations and storage, manufacturing/processing
- Industrial park
- Motion picture and video production (NAICS 51211)
- Research and development, laboratories
- Research and development, offices
- Warehouse and freight storage (indoor operations, storage and loading)
- Warehouse and freight storage (indoor storage with outdoor loading docks)
- Warehousing and distribution, general
- Warehousing, wholesale and distribution, limited
- Wholesale sales, generally (indoor operations, storing and loading)
- Forestry/silvicultural activity consistent with Code of Virginia § 10.1-1126.1
- Nursery, wholesale or commercial
- Satellite dish antennas for private residential use (less than 36 inches in diameter)
- Small cell facilities (see Code of Virginia § 15.2-2316.3, § 15.2-2316.4, and § 15.2-2316.5)
- Telecommunications (co-location on existing tower or alternative tower structure)
- Television, radio and film studios
- Bus/commuter stops/light rail stations
- Bus/railroad depot/taxi stand
- Wind energy facilities—Small
Conditional / special use101
- Adult day care center
- Business residence/residential hotel
- Amusement/entertainment/recreation center, indoor
- Amusement/entertainment/recreation center, outdoor
- College or university
- Civic building
- Cultural uses, including museums, art galleries, opera houses
- Day care, child day center
- Golf driving ranges
- Hotels and motels
- Lakes/reservoirs
- Marinas
- Parking, commercial (not owned or operated by a public agency)
- Parks/open space (generally)
- Probation and parole offices
- Schools, business or trade
- Shooting ranges, indoor or outdoor (indoor only in CBD)
- Utilities, electric transformer stations (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utilities, transmission lines (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utilities, utility installations (excluding installations by City of Suffolk and others exempt under state and federal law)
- Utility facilities, not specifically enumerated (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utility service facilities (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Utility stations (excluding those exempt under local, state or federal law)
- Zoo, indoor or outdoor (indoor only in CBD)
- Kennels, commercial
- Animal sales and care (indoor operations)
- Animal sales and care (outdoor operations)
- Automobile repair, major and body shops
- Automobile repair, minor
- Business services
- Coffee houses
- Contractors and trade shops (indoor operations and outdoor storage, including heavy vehicles)
- Contractors and trade shops (outdoor storage and operations)
- Food service: commissary, food bank
- Gasoline service station
- Model home display park
- Fraternal organizations, lodges, and union halls
- Golf course
- Hospital
- Marina
- Museums
- Park, playground, or recreational area (private)
- Private club or lodge
- School, vocational or trade
- Stadium, arena, or auditorium
- Utility facility, major
- Adult business (see § 31-714)
- Alcoholic beverage sales (off-premises consumption)
- Auction house
- Automobile repair, major
- Automobile sales and rental
- Car wash
- Dance hall or nightclub
- Drive-through facility (accessory to a permitted use)
- Electronic cigarette/vaping store
- Equipment rental
- Flea market
- Funeral home
- Gas station
- Gun shop
- Kennel
- Liquor store
- Lumberyard
- Massage therapy establishment
- Mobile home sales
- Outdoor display and sales (accessory)
- Pawnshop
- Restaurant, fast-food (with drive-through)
- Self-storage facility
- Tire recapping and storage (not junkyards)
- Truck repair
- Truck stop/travel plaza
- Animal food manufacturer
- Automobile auction
- Automobile storage lot including vehicle tow yards
- Cleaning and processing establishment
- Custom manufacturing
- Food processing establishment
- Heavy equipment and industrial storage lots
- Indoor operations with outdoor storage, assembly
- Indoor operations with outdoor storage, food products
- Indoor operations with outdoor storage, manufacturing/processing
- Machine shop
- Truck terminal
- Warehouse and freight storage (outdoor storage or loading)
- Agribusiness
- Aquaculture
- Sawmills
- Winery or micro-brewery
- Telecommunication towers (new construction or increase in height)
- Television or radio transmission towers
- Towers (50,000 volts or more)
- Transmitting facilities, not specifically enumerated
- Aboveground storage tank
- Recycling center
- Airports and heliports (commercial use multi-purpose)
- Helipads and airstrips
- All other aviation or surface passenger terminals
- Solar energy facilities
- Wind energy facilities—Large
- Wind energy facilities—Utility Scale
From the ordinance
| M-2 | — | — | — | 0.9 | 100 | 100 | — | 65 | 30 | — | 50 | (7) | 50 | (7) | — | — |
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"**A.** Retail commercial operations, when the product sold at retail is the product which is manufactured as the primary",
"**(ii)** The retail commercial use does not take place after 9:00 p.m.; and",
"**(iii)** The retail commercial use meets one or more of the following standards:",
"**a.** The use provides cultural or recreational opportunities for employees;",
"**b.** The use provides day care or preschooling for the children of the employees;",
"**c.** The use is a restaurant or a convenience retail use;",
"**C.** Flex space establishments shall comply with the following restrictions:",
"**(i)** Not more than sixty percent (60%) of the gross floor area shall be devoted to wholesale, retail, business servic"
]
}
}