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.
[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.
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.
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)]
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.
For off-street parking provisions, see § 165-11 herein.
[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.
