Industrial District (I) is intended to provide certain areas
within the County for the development of industrial uses that are
incompatible with residential uses because of dust, smoke, odor, vibration,
etc. This district should not be allowed to locate in any area adjacent
to significant residential development.
The following uses shall be permitted subject to all other requirements
of this chapter as a matter of right in the Industrial District (I).
A. Abattoirs/slaughter houses.
B. Accessory buildings and uses as defined in §
175-2.2.
C. Agriculture except the use of fertilizers which are byproducts of
brewer or sewerage operations and require a conditional use permit.
D. Alternative support structures as defined in §
175-23.2.
E. 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.
F. Automobile assembling, painting, upholstering, repairing, rebuilding,
reconditioning, body and fender work, truck repairing or overhauling,
tire re-treading or recapping.
G. Automobile graveyards and dismantling facilities and junkyards.
H. Blacksmith shop, welding or machine shop, excluding punch presses
exceeding forty-ton rated capacity and drop hammers.
M. Building material sales yards, plumbing supplies storage.
N. Cabinets, furniture and upholstery shops.
O. Coal and wood yards, lumber yards, feed and seed stores.
Q. Communications towers and facilities related to business use.
R. Concrete
batch plant.
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S. Contractors' equipment storage yards or plants or sale or rental
of equipment commonly used by contractors.
V. Drainage, erosion and flood control facilities.
W. Engraving or printing plant.
Z. General advertising, business and identification signs, subject to
Article 13.
AA. Laboratories, pharmaceutical and/or medical.
BB. 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.
CC. 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 stones, shell, straw, textiles, tobacco, yarn, and paint.
DD. Manufacture of pottery and figurines or other similar ceramic products,
using only previously pulverized clay and kilns fired only by electricity
or gas.
EE. Manufacture of musical instruments, toys, novelties, and rubber and
metal stamps.
FF. Meat, poultry and seafood processing and packing operations.
HH. Motor vehicle sales and leasing as an accessory use provided that:
(1)
A conforming industrial use operates as the primary use on the
property;
(2)
No more than 25 vehicles for sale/lease are permitted on the
property;
(3)
All vehicles for sale/lease are screened from public view with
a hedge of 3 1/2 feet high along the road and all sides visible
from the road;
(4)
No more than 25% of the total number of employees are to engage
in the sales/lease operation; and
(5)
One sign not to exceed 16 square feet per side is permitted.
II. Petroleum storage operation, including by products.
JJ. Recycling location (dropoff).
KK. Sawmills and planing mills.
LL. Self-storage facilities and offices.
MM. Solid waste management facility as herein recognized public or private
construction/demolition/debris landfill, public or private materials
recovery facility, publicly owned or operated sanitary landfill, and
publicly owned or operated transfer station.
NN. Utility use, minor.
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OO. Veterinary or dog or cat hospitals and kennels.
PP. Wholesale businesses, storage warehouses.
The following uses shall be permitted in the Industrial District
(I), subject to all the other requirements of this chapter, only upon
obtaining of a conditional use permit from the Board of Supervisors.
A. Aviation facilities.
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B. Crushed stone operations.
D. Manufacture of cement and stone products.
E. Railroads and facilities.
F. Sand and gravel operations.
G. Sewage treatment systems (private) where the subject lot or parcel
shall be located outside the area identified by the Floodplain Management
Ordinance of Mathews County as being subject to inundation by waters of the one-hundred-year
flood event.
H. Use of fertilizers which are byproducts of brewery or sewage operations.
I. Utility
use, major (Specific uses identified as by right included in the definition
of "utility use, major" shall be exempt from obtaining a conditional
use permit).
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Sign regulations shall conform to Article 13 of this chapter.
Off-street parking shall be provided in conformance with Article
12 of this chapter.