ARTICLE III. DISTRICTS

DIVISION 5. INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

Sec. 24.1-352. IG-General industrial district.

(a) Statement of intent.

The IG district is intended to provide opportunities for a wide variety of industrial activities whose operations and characteristics may necessarily involve levels of odor, noise, vibration, traffic and other conditions having the potential to adversely impact surrounding land uses. In order to preserve land for these industrial activities, to reduce extraneous traffic, and to avoid future conflicts between industry and other permitted uses, commercial activities are limited primarily to business and industrial parks and to those uses which are 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:

IG-GENERAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT

Use
Classification

Minimum
Lot Requirements(1)

Minimum
Yard Requirements

Maximum
Building
Height
 

Area

Width

Front

Side

Rear

 
All Permitted & Special Uses

30,000 sf
2800m2

125'
37.5m

50'
15m

15'
4.5m

15'
4.5m

75'
22.5m

(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 lot requirements. See article IV.

(c) Special requirements.

(1) Outdoor storage of goods or materials shall not:

a. encroach upon any required landscaping;

b. encroach upon any required parking or loading spaces.

(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;

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

(3) All uses shall be conducted so as not to produce hazardous, objectionable or offensive conditions at or beyond property line boundaries by reason of odor, dust, lint, smoke, cinders, fumes, or noise, vibration, heat, glare, solid or liquid wastes, fire or explosion.

(4) Service drives or other areas shall be provided for off-street loading in such a way that, in the process of loading or unloading, no truck will block the passage of other vehicles on the service drive or extend into any fire lane or other public or private drive or street used for circulation.

(5) Other provisions of this ordinance notwithstanding, the use of trailers, as defined in section 24.1-104, for 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 shall not be visible from any adjacent right-of-way.

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