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ARTICLE III. DISTRICTS

DIVISION 5. INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

Sec. 24.1-351. IL-Limited industrial district.

(a) Statement of intent. The IL district is intended to provide opportunities for a wide variety of light manufacturing, fabricating, assembling, processing, wholesale distributing, and warehousing uses in areas designated for limited industrial development by the comprehensive plan. In order to preserve land for these industrial activities, to reduce extraneous traffic, and to avoid future conflicts between industry and other uses, permitted commercial activities are limited primarily to business and industrial parks and to those activities which will be useful to employees in the district and compatible with and complementary to the permitted types of industrial activities.

(b) Dimensional standards. Each lot created or used shall be subject to the following dimensional standards:

IL-LIMITED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Use
Classification

Minimum
Lot Requirements(1)

Minimum
Yard Requirements

Maximum
Building
Height

 

Area

Width

Front

Side

Rear

 
All Permitted & Special Uses

20,000 sf

100'

45'

10'

10'

60'

(1) These minimum lot requirements apply where both public water and public sewer are available. For lots not served by public water and public sewer, refer to section 24.1-204.

Minimum district size: none

NOTE:
Performance standards and special use permit requirements or conditions may increase yard and lotrequirements. See article IV.

(c) Special requirements.

(1) Outdoor storage of goods or materials shall:

a. not be permitted in any front yard area;

b. not encroach upon any required landscaping;

c. not encroach upon any required parking or loading space;

d. be screened from public rights-of-way or adjoining properties which are not zoned or used for industrial purposes.

(2) Outdoor display of merchandise shall be permitted in any yard area provided that such display:

a. shall not encroach upon any required perimeter infiltration yards adjoining a lot line;

b. shall not encroach upon any required parking or loading space;

c. when located in any front yard, shall be limited to that merchandise which is in working order and ready for sale; and

      d. shall not cause injury or harm or reduce the viability of any required            landscaping.

(3) Other provisions of this ordinance notwithstanding, the use of trailers, as defined in section 24.1-104, for outdoor storage purposes in conjunction with a principal permitted use shall be permitted provided that such use shall be clearly accessory and incidental to the principal use of the property and that such trailer or cargo unit shall not be visible from any adjacent right-of-way and shall be screened from view from adjacent properties by fencing and/or landscaping.

(Ord. No. 05-13(R), 5/17/05)

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