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Chesapeake, Virginia · District

M-1

Light Industrial District
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Dimensional standards

M-1 lot requirementsSTREETMIN LOT AREA50 ac
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Lot

Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.
2,178,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. (50 acacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.)

Uses

Permitted by right8

Conditional / special use1

Accessory4

Extracted standards

2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Other

  • Minimum distance from subdivision1 mi

    No racetrack shall be permitted within one (1) mile of any existing subdivision consisting of more than five (5) adjacent lots zoned or used for residential purposes

  • Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property lines100 ft

    All exterior walls or portions of the racetrack stadium or seating structures shall be set back a minimum distance of 100 feet from all property lines.

From the ordinance

All racetracks ... shall be a conditional use in the M-1, M-2, and A-1 districts only
§ 13-2301