Prince William County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
M-2
Light Industrial Zoning District
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right44
- Alarm system operations, office
- Ambulance services, commercial
- Artist or photographer's studio, commercial
- Assembly (non-HAZMAT)
- Bakery, industrial
- Brewery and Bottling Facility
- Business school
- Catering-commercial (off premises)
- Cold storage
- College, university or seminary
- Computer and network services
- Contractor or tradesman's shop (limited), no trash or refuse removal service
- Data Center within the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Distillery (not to exceed production of 5,000 gallons per year)
- Distribution and fulfillment center, less than 80,000 square feet in gross floor area, outside of the E-Commerce Overlay District
- Distribution and fulfillment center, less than 250,000 square feet in gross floor area, within the E-Commerce Overlay District
- Electronic equipment and component manufacturing, assembly, processing and distribution
- Gunsmith shop
- Institute for special education and training
- Institutional food service
- Janitorial service
- Locksmith
- Medical or dental laboratory
- Motor vehicle service (limited)
- Neighborhood retail and fulfillment center
- Office
- Pharmaceutical product manufacturing (non-HAZMAT)
- Photographic processing laboratory
- Publishing and printing
- Radio or TV broadcasting station
- Railroad passenger station
- Recording studio
- Recycling collection points, subject to the standards in section 32-250.84
- Research and development (non-HAZMAT)
- School of special instruction
- Self-storage center, subject to the provisions of section 32-400.14
- Solar energy facility
- Tool and equipment rental, service and repair (minor)
- Trade or convention center
- Trade, technical or vocational school
- Travel agency
- Veterinary hospital
- Warehouse (non-HAZMAT)
- Wholesaling (non-HAZMAT)
Conditional / special use23
- Ambulance service maintenance facility
- Assembly (HAZMAT)
- Data Center outside the Data Center Opportunity Zone Overlay District
- Distribution and fulfillment center, greater than 80,000 square feet in gross floor area, outside of the E-Commerce Overlay District
- Distribution and fulfillment center, greater than 250,000 square feet in gross floor area, within the E-Commerce Overlay District
- Donated materials collection center
- Flea market
- Heliport
- Marina
- Motor vehicle fuel station
- Moving and storage
- Parking, commercial
- Parking, fleet (in accordance with the provisions of county code section 32-400.27)
- Racetrack (equestrian or motorized)
- Ranges, shooting, indoor or outdoor
- Recreation facility, commercial (outdoor)
- Recyclable materials separation facility
- Research and development (HAZMAT)
- Stadium or arena, indoor or outdoor
- Taxi or limousine operations and service
- Testing/experimental laboratories (HAZMAT)
- Water transportation facility
- Wholesale (HAZMAT)
Accessory16
- Adult day center
- Barber shop, beautician studio, tanning and toning salon (one set of toning equipment only)
- Bus station, commercial
- Catalog sales, contractor, tradesman, or industrial equipment (without showroom)
- Child-care facility
- Equipment storage
- Financial institution
- Helistop
- Motor vehicle fuel station (limited to vehicles associated with the primary business or use)
- Office equipment, sales, lease and service
- Quick service food store (not freestanding, unless approved as part of a motor vehicle fuel station, retail)
- Recreation, commercial (indoor)
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, carry-out
- Retail store
- Taxi or limousine dispatching
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. retail sales limit20 pct
No more than 20 percent of the gross floor area devoted to any use may be used for accessory retail sales of products made or stored on the premises.
- Outdoor storage limit40 pct
No more than 40 percent of the total lot area may be devoted to outdoor storage, provided that all outdoor storage is screened, according to Section 802.49 of the Design and Construction Standards Manual, from adjacent properties and abutting streets.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from agriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
When the side or rear of a lot within a M-2 District abuts an agricultural or residential district, a minimum setback of 50 feet from the common property line shall be required for all structures and uses
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from commercial or office districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
When the side or rear of a lot within a M-2 District abuts a commercial or office district, a minimum setback of 20 feet from the common property line shall be required for all structures and uses
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way20 ft
At least 20 feet from all street rights-of-way
From the ordinance
There shall be no minimum lot size. The maximum lot coverage shall be 80 percent, with a required minimum open space area of 20 percent. The maximum floor area ratio (FAR) shall be 0.50. The maximum height for all structures shall be 60 feet.
Use details
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"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Greenhouse, nursery (wholesale) (not more than twenty (20) percent of the lot area may be devoted to retail garden center uses)"
]
}
}