Statement of intent.

This district is established primarily for industrial operations and for heavy commercial operations, which may create some nuisance, and which are not particularly compatible with residential, institutional, or retail commercial uses.

9-1
Uses—Permitted by right.

9-1-1
Assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments and devices, radios and phonographs. Also, the manufacture of small parts such as coils, condensers, transformers, and crystal holders, and other similar manufacture.

9-1-2
Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding, reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling, tire retreading or recapping, or battery manufacture.

9-1-3
Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses exceeding forty-ton rated capacity and drop hammers.

9-1-4
Fabrication of metal products.

9-1-5
Laboratories, pharmaceutical and/or medical.

9-1-6
Manufacture, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment of such products as bakery goods, candy, cosmetics, dairy products, drugs, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, perfumed toilet soap, toiletries, and food products other than a meat packing or processing plant.

(Ord. No. O2014-06, 10-14-14)

Editor's note— This section reflects a correction dated January 12, 2017, at the direction of the city.

9-1-7a
Manufacture, compounding, assembling, or treatment of articles of merchandise from the following previously prepared materials: bone, cellophane, canvas, cloth, cork, feathers, felt, fiber, fur, glass, hair, horn, leather, paper, plastic, precious or semiprecious metals or stone, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, wood, yarn, and paint.

9-1-7b
Vegetative rubbish recycling facility.

9-1-8
Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products, using only previously pulverized clay, and kilns fired only by electricity or gas.

9-1-9
Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and metal stamps.

9-1-10
Building materials, plumbing supplies, storage yards with or without sales.

9-1-11
Coal and wood yards, lumberyards, feed and seed stores.

9-1-12
Contractors' equipment storage yard or plant, or rental of equipment commonly used by contractors.

9-1-13
Cabinet, furniture and upholstery shops.

9-1-14
Draying and freighting or trucking yard or terminal.

9-1-15
Cotton spinning mills.

9-1-16
Boat building.

9-1-17
Stone works.

9-1-18
Glass manufacture.

9-1-19
Sawmill.

9-1-20
Veterinary or dog or cat hospital, kennels.

9-1-21
Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses.

9-1-22
Public utility: Generating, booster or relay stations, transformer substations, transmission lines with support structures, wooden poles for electric, telephone lines and similar lines and other facilities for the provision and maintenance of public utilities, including railroads and facilities, water and sewerage installations and water storage tanks. (O2011-04)

9-1-23
Business signs advertising sale or rent of premises, only. Up to sixty-four (64) square feet.

9-1-24
Business signs. Up to sixty-four (64) square feet.

9-1-25
Directional signs.

9-1-26
Location signs.

9-1-27
Automobile graveyard, class B.

9-1-28
Communication towers subject to Article 20, Communication Tower Ordinance.

9-1-29
Small wind energy system, per requirements in Article 22 of these regulations.

9-1-30
Distillery. (Ord. No. O2014-06, 10-14-14)

9-1-31
Brewery. (Ord. No. O2014-06, 10-14-14)

9-1-32
Winery.

(Ord. of 6-8-99; Ord. No. O2007-003, 5-21-07; Ord. No. O2009-12, § 1, 11-10-09; Ord. No. O2011-04, 8-9-11; Ord. No. O2014-06, 10-14-14; Ord. No. O2017-02, 11-16-17)

9-1-a
Uses—Permitted by Special Use Permit only.

9-1-1a
Abattoir.

9-1-2a
Airport.

9-1-3a
Automobile graveyard, class C.

9-1-4a
Borrow pit.

9-1-5a
Food or meat packing or processing plant.

9-1-6a
General advertising signs.

9-1-7a
Lattice structure used to support a wind turbine. (O2009-12)

9-1-8a
Public and/or private penal, detention facilities.

9-1-9a
Quarrying.

9-1-10a
Restaurant.

9-1-11a
Two (2) or more small wind energy system(s), per requirements in Article 22 of these regulations. (O2009-12; O2011-04)

9-1-12a
Composting, commercial. (O2011-01)

9-1-13a
Small wind energy system(s) on a parcel of land twenty (20) acres or larger in size with a height greater than one hundred (100) feet but less than one hundred ninety-nine (199) feet. (O2011-04)

9-1-14a
Residential quarters for bona fide caretaker. (O2013-07)

(Ord. No. O2010-09, § 1, 9-14-10; Ord. No. O2011-01, § 3, 1-11-11; Ord. No. O2011-04, 8-9-11; Ord. No. O2013-07, 9-10-13)

9-2
Requirements for permitted uses.

9-2-1
Permitted uses may be required to be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building or within an area enclosed on all sides by a solid masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence or an evergreen hedge between six (6) and ten (10) feet in height.

Public utilities requiring natural air circulation or other technical consideration necessary for proper operation may be exempt from this provision. This exception does not include storing of any materials.

9-2-2
Landscaping may be required within any established or required front setback area. The plans and execution must take into consideration traffic hazards. Landscaping may be permitted up to a height of three (3) feet, and to within fifty (50) feet from the corner of any intersecting streets.

9-2-3
Sufficient area shall be provided to screen adequately permitted uses from adjacent business and residential district and for off-street parking of vehicles incidental to the industry, its employees and clients.

9-2-4
Automobile graveyards and junkyards in existence at the time of the adoption of this ordinance are to be considered as nonconforming uses. They shall be allowed up to three (3) years after adoption of this ordinance in which to screen completely, on any open side, the operation or use by a masonry wall, a uniformly painted solid board fence, or an evergreen hedge six (6) feet in height.

9-2-5
The Administrator shall act on any application received within thirty (30) days after receiving the application. Failure on the part of the Administrator to act on the application within the established time limit shall be deemed to constitute approval of the application.

9-3
Setback regulations.

No setback required except that a reasonable distance may be required where necessary to provide traffic sight lines or to preserve or to enhance the scenic character of a designated Virginia Byway.

9-4
Yard regulations.

The minimum side and rear yards adjoining a boundary of a residential, agricultural or conservation district shall be twenty (20) feet or more.

9-5
Site plan.

Before a building and zoning permit shall be issued, a site plan of proposed development shall be approved by the Commission in conformance with Article 13 of this appendix.