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Henry County Unincorporated
City Zoning Code

ARTICLE X

- LIMITED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT I-2

Sec. 21-1000.- Intent.

The Limited Industrial District is intended to encourage low intensity industrial and heavy commercial uses compatible with adjacent uses of lesser intensity. Setbacks, screening, and landscape requirements, and other mechanisms are employed to buffer the different uses. Typical uses found in this district are warehousing, light industrial development, and more intense commercial uses. Uses not consistent with the character of this district shall not be permitted.

Sec. 21-1001. - Permitted uses.

In the Limited Industrial District, structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for one or more of the following uses:

1.

Accessory uses and structures.

2.

Appliance stores, including electrical appliance repair facilities.

3.

Assembly of intermediate or final goods or products from components not manufactured on the premises.

4.

Automobile, boat, farm equipment, motorcycle and other machinery sales, repair, and storage.

5.

Automobile washing establishments.

6.

Bake shops provided all products produced on the premises shall also be sold at retail on the premises.

7.

Bicycle sales, rental, and repair stores.

8.

Building and lumber supply and equipment sales.

9.

Carpentry, cabinet, and upholstery shops.

10.

Catering establishments.

11.

Reserved.

12.

Coin-operated laundromats or self-service dry cleaning establishments.

13.

Cold storage facilities.

14.

Convenience (quick pick-up) retail food stores.

15.

Cut and sew operations.

16.

Dressmaking, tailoring, and millinery shops.

17.

Drugs, toiletries, perfumes, and pharmaceuticals—manufacture.

18.

Facilities and structures necessary for the rendering of public utility service, including poles, towers, and the like for normal electrical distribution or communication service. Pipelines, conduits, meters, and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public electrical, gas, water and sewer service.

19.

Feed, seed, and fertilizer storage and sales.

20.

Florist shops, including greenhouses.

20.5.

General contractors, which shall include building contractors, electrical contractors, HVAC contractors, plumbing contractors, and specialty contractors as defined under title 54.1, chapter 11, Code of Virginia.

21.

Hardware stores.

22.

Hobby supply and sporting goods stores.

23.

Hotels.

24.

Ice pick-up stations.

25.

Individual manufactured housing, modular home, motor home, or travel trailers sales establishments.

26.

Industrial and building supplies and materials (cement, sand, gravel, stone, lumber, structural or reinforcing steel, pipe, and the like) storage and sales, but not their manufacture or steel fabricating or junk storage.

27.

Jewelry and watch sales and repair stores.

28.

Laundry and dry cleaning pick-up stations.

29.

Landscape, nursery and garden supply sales.

30.

Living quarters for one family included as a part of a single office building housing a single use and occupied by the owner, manager, or caretaker of a permitted business.

31.

Living quarters for resident watchman and caretakers employed on the premises.

32.

Lock and gunsmiths.

33.

Musical instrument sales and repair.

34.

Nursery schools and day care centers.

35.

Off-street parking as required by this chapter.

36.

Offices—business, professional, and public including architectural, engineering, medical, and dental clinics and facilities, and other such agencies and offices rendering specialized service.

37.

Office equipment and supply sales and service.

38.

Office—warehouses.

39.

Opticians and optical supply sales.

40.

Paint and wallpaper sales stores.

41.

Pet shops.

42.

Plumbing, electrical, heating and air conditioning supply houses, including accessory storage yards.

43.

Printing, publishing, and reproduction establishments.

44.

Radio and television stations.

45.

Radio and television sales and service stores.

46.

Restaurants, including drive-in establishments.

47.

Retail sales establishments.

48.

Sewing machine sales, instruction, and service stores.

49.

Sign printing and painting shops.

49.5.

Small scale solar energy facilities.

50.

Temporary uses.

51.

Tire sales and recapping businesses.

52.

Truck terminals, freight.

53.

Warehouses and wholesale storage facilities and distributors.

54.

Waste collection and recycling centers.

(Ord. of 6-24-03, § 4; Ord. of 3-24-20)

Sec. 21-1002. - Special use permit uses.

The uses permitted in the Limited Industrial District with a special use permit as approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals are as follows:

1.

Animal hospitals, clinics and kennels.

2.

Automobile graveyards, junkyards.

3.

Coliseums.

3.5.

Large scale solar energy facilities.

4.

Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls, golf driving ranges and miniature golf courses, skating rinks, athletic clubs, health clubs and similar forms of public amusement and recreation.

5.

Promotional, amusement, and entertainment facilities, sponsored by any licensed business or businesses or non-profit organizations and are located on the property owned or controlled by the sponsor. Such uses shall be properly safe-guarded from traffic and shall observe all setbacks required for structures. Temporary, promotional, recreational, or fundraising amusement activities and facilities of not more than three (3) days duration sponsored by civic, professional, fraternal, institutional or religious groups or organizations, and conducted for community, religious or benevolent purposes and located on property owned or controlled by the sponsor shall be exempted from this section. Examples of such amusement facilities and activities are musical entertainment, jamborees, educational displays, arts and crafts, auctions, legal games, dunking booths, concession and vending. Rides are permitted. Tent revivals or other similar outdoor religious services of not more than seven (7) days duration shall also be exempted from this section.

(Ord. of 12-18-95, § 1(B); Ord. of 3-24-20)

Sec. 21-1003. - Area regulations.

None, except for permitted uses utilizing an individual water or sewage disposal system; the required area for any such use shall be approved by the Health Official.

Sec. 21-1004. - Setback regulations.

The front setback line shall be located thirty-five (35) feet from any street right-of-way which is fifty (50) feet or greater in width or sixty (60) feet from the centerline of any street right-of-way less than fifty (50) feet in width. This shall be known as the "setback line." No structure shall be constructed or placed closer to the front property line than the setback line.

(Ord. of 1-27-97)

Sec. 21-1005. - Yard regulations.

A.

Side. The minimum side yard for all structures shall be fifty (50) feet if the adjoining parcel is not zoned to an industrial classification.

B.

Rear. The minimum rear yard for all structures shall be fifty (50) feet if the adjoining parcel is not zoned to an industrial classification.

The Zoning Administrator may require an appropriate type of screen planting at the side or rear property lines for buffering when properties are adjoining or adjacent to residential or agricultural districts.

Sec. 21-1006. - Height regulations.

Structures may be erected up to seventy-five (75) feet in height from grade. This requirement shall not apply to chimneys, water towers, monuments, parapet walls, flues, flagpoles, television antennae, radio aerials, and similar structures and necessary mechanical appurtenances. Towers and structures may be erected to a height greater than seventy-five (75) feet if a Special Use Permit is approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals.

(Ord. of 8-24-98)