Winchester, Virginia · District

M-2

Intensive Industrial District

Dimensional standards

Uses

Permitted by right44

  • The manufacture, compounding, processing, packing, or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals and high-purity chemicals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products, except refining of fats and oils.
  • The manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similarly ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
  • The manufacture and maintenance of electric and neon signs, billboards, commercial advertising structures, light sheet metal products, including heating and ventilating ducts and equipment, cornices, eaves, and the like.
  • The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps.
  • Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments, and devices, radios, television sets, and phonographs; electroplating and the manufacture of small parts and components such as coils, condensers, transformers, crystal holders, and the like.
  • Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire re-treading or re-capping, battery manufacture, transportation equipment maintenance, repair and assembly facilities, and the like.
  • Bulk storage.
  • Carpenter or cabinet shop.
  • Compounding, processing, and other operations involved in the manufacture, packaging, and distribution of asbestos friction materials, other friction materials and miscellaneous friction products.
  • Concrete manufacturing.
  • Contractors' equipment storage yards or plants, or rental equipment commonly used by contractors.
  • Distribution plants, parcel delivery, ice and cold storage plant, and food commissary or catering establishment, and brewery.
  • Feed and fuel yard.
  • Foundry casting lightweight, non-ferrous metal not causing noxious fumes, noise, or odors.
  • Laboratories: pharmaceutical, medical, experimental, photo, or motion picture film, or testing.
  • Laundry, cleaning, and dyeing works and carpet and rug cleaning.
  • Machinery sales and service.
  • Machine shop, metal fabrication shop, or welding shop, excluding punch press and drop hammers exceeding 40 ton rated capacity.
  • Meat, poultry, and fish processing.
  • Monumental stone works.
  • Offices: Business, professional and governmental.
  • Oil, rubber, or leather goods manufacture.
  • Public utilities, such as poles, lines, distribution transformers, pipes, meters, water and sewer lines, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines or towers.
  • Public utility service yard.
  • Repair services or businesses.
  • Retail lumberyard, including only incidental mill work.
  • Sand and gravel operation.
  • Sawmills and planing mills.
  • Storage or bailing of scrap, iron, bottles, rags, or junk.
  • Transmitting and receiving facilities, for radio, television, or television cable stations.
  • Truck terminals.
  • Upholstery shop.
  • Vertical farming uses to be conducted entirely within an industrialized container, subject to the requirements in Section 18-17.1.
  • Veterinary offices or hospitals and boarding kennels.
  • Wholesale business, storage buildings, and warehousing.
  • Wood preserving operations.
  • Accessory uses, as defined.
  • Off-Street Parking Areas as defined in Section 18-6 of this Ordinance for permitted and conditional uses in the M-2 District and access drives for permitted and conditional uses in the B-2, B-1, CM-1, M-1, MC and HE-1 Districts in accordance with Section 18-6 of this Ordinance.
  • Signs in accordance with Section 18-8 of this Ordinance.
  • Mini-warehouses/mini-storage, as defined, subject to the following provisions.
  • Commercial Records Center.
  • Brewery, distillery, microdistillery, microbrewery, nanobrewery, and winery. Such facilities may not incorporate a restaurant as principal part of their operations.
  • Wireless facilities and wireless support structures eligible for administrative review per Section 18-30-4.
  • Solar energy systems, as a principal use.

Conditional / special use1

  • Wireless facilities and wireless support structures not eligible for administrative review.

From the ordinance

nor 200 feet in the M-1 or M-2 Districts
Sec. 18-30-3E

Use details

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  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "The manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles or merchandise from the following materials which have been prepared beforehand: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastics, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarns, and paint not employing a boiling process."
    ]
  }
}