Uses
Permitted by right13
- All uses permitted in Light Manufacturing District except animal hospitals, kennels, laundries, dry cleaning, newspaper offices, business and professional offices, radio/TV studios, parking garages
- Mass production of goods from raw materials
- Automobile assembling
- Building materials sales yards
- Coal and wood yards
- Contractors' equipment storage
- Boat building
- Sawmills
- Brick manufacturing
- Off-street parking
- Signs
- Self-storage facility
- Adult businesses (subject to conditions)
Conditional / special use10
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Grading
- Final gradingGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. and site finishing required
Final grading and site finishing are required on parcels where uses are permitted in this district.
Lighting
- Lighting regulations per Appendix F
All permitted and conditional uses are subject to the lighting regulations contained in appendix F.
Other
- Hours of operation restrictions
The business shall not begin service to the public or any outside activity before 7:00 a.m. local time. Hours of operation for any adult movie theater, adult nightclub or other business providing adult entertainment shall not extend after 1:00 a.m. local time. Hours of operation for any adult bookstore, adult video store, adult model studio, adult store or any other adult business except an adult motel shall not extend after 12:00 midnight local time.
- Interior lighting requirement2 foot-candles
The interior of the enclosed premises shall be equipped with overhead lighting fixtures that at all times illuminate every place patrons are permitted access, with an illumination of not less than two-foot candles measured at floor level.
- Minimum distance from residential or agricultural-forestall zoning districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.500 ft
The business shall be located at least 500 feet away from any residential or agricultural-forestall zoning district, and at least 500 feet from the property line of any land used for a dwelling, nursing home, adult day care, child day care, school, park, library, church, hotel, etc.
- Plan submission required
Before a building permit shall be issued or construction commenced on any permitted use in this district, or a permit issued for a new use, the plans, in sufficient detail to show the operations and processes, shall be submitted to the zoning administrator for study.
- Security camera system required
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.
- Size restrictions per Section 506
All permitted and conditional uses are subject to the size restrictions set forth in section 506 of the city's Land Development Regulations.
From the ordinance
The primary purpose of this district is to establish and preserve areas within the city that are suitable for business and industrial operations...