Louisa City Zoning Code
ARTICLE VII
Industrial District IND
§ 165-50 Intent.
The primary purpose of this district is to establish areas where the principal use of land is for heavy commercial and industrial operations, which may create some nuisance, and which are not properly associated with or particularly compatible with residential, institutional and neighborhood commercial service establishments.
§ 165-51 Permitted and special uses.
[Amended 5-16-1995]
A.
In an Industrial Commercial District (IND), as indicated on the Zoning Map, no lot, building or structure shall be used and no building shall be erected which is intended or designed to be used for other than one or more of the following uses:
(1)
All uses permitted (as permitted uses) and in the same manner permitted in the aforesaid General Commercial District except for single-family dwellings. [NOTE: Bed-and-breakfast establishments, hotels and motels and the like, for human habitation, on permanent or temporary basis, are not permitted in the Industrial District.]
(2)
Accessory uses and buildings customarily incident to the above.
(3)
The assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs, including the manufacturing of light metal parts only, such as coils, condensers, transformers and crystal holders.
(4)
The manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties and rubber and metal stamps.
(5)
Building material sales yards.
(6)
Coal and wood yards, lumber yards and sand and gravel yards.
(7)
A contractors' equipment storage yard or plant or the rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.
(8)
Laundry and dry-cleaning plants.
(9)
The manufacturing, compounding, processing, packing or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries and food products, except the following: fish, meat, sauerkraut, pickles, vinegar, yeast and the rendering of fats and oils.
(10)
The manufacturing, compounding, assembling or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals or stones, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarn and paint.
(11)
The manufacture of pottery and figurines, or other similar ceramic products using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.
(12)
Stone monument works, wholesale.
(13)
Wholesale business; storage warehouses and tobacco sales warehouses.
(14)
Greenhouses and nurseries operated on a commercial scale, including sales rooms and offices.
(15)
Light manufacturing and processing, all without limit as to production, provided that no operations are carried on which create conditions of smoke, fumes, noise, odor, dust or water pollution detrimental to the health, safety or general welfare of the community.
B.
Uses with special use permits.
(1)
A veterinary or dog or cat hospital and kennels.
(2)
Laboratories, pharmaceutical and medical.
(3)
A draying, freighting or trucking yard and/or terminal.
(4)
Textile mills.
(5)
Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading, recapping of tires and battery manufacture.
(6)
Any facility selling or dispensing gasoline or gasoline products or petroleum products, including filling stations.
(7)
A blacksmith shop and welding or machine shop, excluding the following: punch presses, drop hammers and automatic screw machines.
(8)
Public library.
§ 165-52 Landscaping; screening; time for decision.
A.
Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area, the plans and execution of which must take into consideration traffic hazards, and no such landscape planting shall be permitted to exceed a height of three feet within 50 feet of the corner of any intersecting streets.
B.
Sufficient area shall be provided to adequately screen permitted uses from adjacent business and residential zones and for off-street parking for vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.
C.
The Commission shall act on any application received within 20 days after receiving the application, except that upon formal notice, in writing, being given to the applicant, the time for action may be extended for successive twenty-day periods, not exceeding three months. Failure on the part of the Commission to act on the application within the established time limit shall be deemed to constitute approval of the application.
§ 165-53 Prohibited uses.
A.
Regardless of the permission of any of the above uses, no such use shall be permitted if it creates a nuisance by reason of excessive smoke, dust, noxious or nauseous fumes, noise or vibration. The official responsible for the issuance of building permits shall refuse to issue such permits if, in his opinion, the permitted use would violate this section.
B.
Without limitation, such industries as steel mills, petroleum refineries, asphalt plants, pulp and paper mills, automobile graveyards as defined by the Code of Virginia, junkyards and open garbage and trash dumps shall be forbidden in this or any other district.
C.
Automobile graveyards and junkyards in existence at the time of the adoption of this chapter may continue as nonconforming uses, provided that they shall have a period of not exceeding two years after said adoption in which to completely screen on any side viewed from a public road the operation or use by a solid six-foot-high masonry wall or other type of solid fencing or hedge approved by the Administrator.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
§ 165-54 Side yard and setback requirements.
§ 165-55 Height limitations.
A.
No building or structure shall be erected to a height greater than 70 feet without recommendation of the Commission and approval of the Town Council after the required public hearing(s).
B.
No building or group of buildings, with their accessory buildings, shall cover more than 70% of the area of the lot.
§ 165-56 Off-street parking.
For off-street parking provisions, see § 165-11 herein.
§ 165-57 Signs and outdoor advertising.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II)]
All signs and outdoor advertising shall conform to Chapter 134, Signs, of the Town Code.