HomeMy WebLinkAboutCLE202200033 Other 2022-03-25Albemarle County, VA Code of Ordinances
Sec. 26.2 -Permitted primary and accessory uses and structures; prohibited uses and structures.
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(Formerly Application, Repealed 4-3-13)
Uses and structures within the industrial districts are permitted as follows:
a. Primary uses and structures. Primary uses and structures within the industrial districts are
permitted by right, by special use permit, and by special exception as provided in the following
table, subject to the applicable requirements of this chapter:
Use
LI
HI
PD-
IP
Cat.
1
PD-
IP
Cat.
2
Manufacturing/Processing/Assembly/Fabrication/Recycling*
BR
BR
BR
BR
Asphalt mixing plants.
N
SP
N
SP
Brick manufacturing, distribution.
SP
BR
SP
BR
Cement, lime gypsum manufacture or processing.
N
SP
N
SP
Chemical, plastics manufacture or processing.
SP
SP
SP
SP
Dry cleaning plants (reference 1 4 ).
SP
BR
SP
BR
Foundries (reference 5.1.50).
N
SP
N
SP
Inorganic fertilizer manufacture or processing.
N
SP
N
SP
Materials recovery facilities, privately owned and operated.
SP
BR
SP
BR
Organic fertilizer manufacture or processing.
SP
BR
SP
BR
Petroleum, gasoline, natural gas and manufactured gas bulk
storage (reference 5.1�20).
SP
BR
SP
BR
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Petroleum refining, including by-products (reference 5.1.20).
N
SP
N
SP
Pulp or paper manufacture or processing.
N
SP
N
SP
Recycling processing center.
SP
BR
SP
BR
Rendering plants (reference 5.1.53).
SP
BR
SP
BR
Sawmills, temporary or permanent; planing mills; wood yards
SP
BR
SP
BR
(reference 5.1.15).
Storage/Warehousing/Distribution/Transportation*
BR
BR
BR
BR
Airports.
SP
SP
SP
SP
Heavy equipment and heavy vehicle parking and storage
SP
BR
SP
BR
ya rd s.
Heliports (reference 5.1.01).
SP
SP
SP
SP
Helistops (reference 5.1.01).
SP
SP
SP
SP
Junk yards (reference 5.1.10).
N
SP
N
SP
Warehouse facilities where there may be the storage of
SP
BR
SP
BR
gasoline, kerosene or other volatile materials, dynamite
blasting caps and other explosives, pesticides and poisons,
and other materials which may be hazardous to life in the
event of accident.
Wholesale businesses where there may be the storage of
SP
BR
SP
BR
gasoline, kerosene or other volatile materials, dynamite
blasting caps and other explosives, pesticides and poisons,
and other materials which may be hazardous to life in the
event of accident.
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Laboratories/Research and Development/Experimental
Testing
BR
BR
BR
BR
Offices**
Independent offices; within structure existing or vested on or
before April 3, 2014.
BR
BR
BR
BR
Independent offices; within structure not established or not
vested until after April 3, 2014.
SP
SP
SP
SIP
Independent offices; within expanded portion of structure
where expansion not established or not vested until after
April 3, 2014.
SP
SIP
SP
SIP
Industrial offices.
BR
BR
BR
BR
Public Uses, Utilities and Services, and Telecommunications Uses**
Energy and communications transmission facilities (reference
5.1.12).
SP
SP
SP
SIP
Fire, ambulance and rescue squad stations (reference 5.1.09).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Personal wireless service facilities, Tier I (reference).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Personal wireless service facilities, Tier 11 (reference 5.1.40).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Personal wireless service facilities, Tier III (reference 5.1.40).
SP
SP
SP
SP
Public uses (reference 5.1.12).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Stormwater management facilities shown on an approved
final site plan or subdivision plat.
BR
BR
BR
BR
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Water, sewer, energy, communications distribution facilities
BR
BR
BR
BR
(reference 5.1.12).
Temporary Uses**
Temporary construction headquarters (reference 5.1.18).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Temporary construction storage yards (reference 5.1.18).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Temporary events sponsored by local nonprofit organizations
SP
SP
SP
SP
(references 1,27).
Temporary industrialized buildings (reference 5.8).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Commercial Uses**
Uses permitted by right or by special use permit in the
SP
SP
SP
SP
Commercial (C-1), Commercial Office (CO) and Highway
Commercial (HC) districts (collectively, "general commercial
uses" as used in section 26.3) not otherwise expressly
authorized by this section either by right or by special use
permit; within structure existing or vested on April 3, 2013.
Farmers' markets conducted in a permanent structure
SP
SP
SP
SP
established after May 5, 2010 (reference5.1.47).
Farmers' markets conducted outdoors or within a temporary
BR
BR
BR
BR
or a permanent structure existing on May 5, 2010 (reference
5.1 47).
Hotels, motels, inns.
SP
SP
SP
SP
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Outdoor storage, display and/or sales serving or associated
SP
SP
SP
SP
with a permitted use, other than a residential, agricultural or
forestal use, any portion of which would be visible from a
street within the entrance corridor overlay district to which it
is contiguous or from any other street within the entrance
corridor overlay district which is located within 500 feet;
provided that review shall be limited to determining whether
the outdoor storage, display and/or sales is consistent with
the applicable design guidelines.
Subordinate retail sales for any use permitted by right; use
BR
BR
BR
BR
does not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the primary
industrial use.
Subordinate retail sales for any use permitted by right; use
SE
SE
SE
SE
exceeds 25% of the gross floor area of the primary industrial
use.
Supporting commercial; use does not exceed 25% of the gross
BR
BR
BR
BR
floor area of the freestanding building or multiple buildings on
an industrial site.
Supporting commercial; use exceeds 25% of the gross floor
SE
SE
SE
SE
area of the freestanding building or multiple buildings on an
industrial site.
Parking**
Parking structures, as part of an occupied structure (reference
BR
BR
BR
BR
4.12, 5.1.41).
Parking structures, stand alone (reference 4.12, 5.1.41).
SP
SP
SP
SP
Parking area, stand alone (reference 4.12, 5.1.41).
SP
SP
SP
SP
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Uses Not Served By Public Water or Public Sewer**
Uses permitted by right in the Light Industry (LI) or Heavy
SP
SP
SP
SP
Industry (HI) districts, not served by public sewer, involving
anticipated discharge of sewage other than domestic wastes.
Uses permitted by right in the Light Industry (LI) or Heavy
SP
SP
SP
SP
Industry (HI) districts, not served by public water, involving
water consumption exceeding 400 gallons per site acre per
day.
Miscellaneous
Dwellings and sleeping quarters, on -site (reference 5.1 21).
BR
BR
BR
BR
Fill areas (reference5.1, 28)
BR
BR
BR
BR
Waste areas (referenced 1.28)
BR
BR
BR
BR
*Applies to all uses within this use classification, as defined, except for those uses expressly
identified in unshaded text below that use classification.
**Heading is for organizational purposes only and is not a use classification.
BR: The use is permitted by right.
SP: The use is permitted by special use permit.
SE: The use is permitted by special exception.
N: The use is not permitted.
b. Planned industrial parks and proffered industrial districts approved prior to April3, 2013.
Within the following planned industrial parks and proffered industrial districts, the uses
permitted by right, by special use permit, and by special exception shall be as follows:
1. Uses in planned industrial parks. The uses permitted by right and by special use permit in
any planned development -industrial park (PD-IP) district approved prior to April 3, 2013,
any industrial park approved as a planned development prior to December 10, 1980 are
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those uses permitted by right and by special use permit in effect when the zoning map
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amendment was approved and those uses delineated in subsection (a), regardless of any
election made for a planned development district under subsections 8.55.5 2(a) and (b).
2. Uses in proffered industrial districts. The uses permitted by right and by special use permit
on any site within an industrial district for which proffers either specifying or prohibiting
particular uses were accepted prior to April 3, 2013, are those uses permitted by right and
by special use permit in effect when the zoning map amendment was approved and those
uses delineated in subsection (a), provided that any use not allowed by right or by special
use permit by a proffer shall be prohibited.
3. Certain non -industrial uses in planned industrial parks and proffered industrial districts. In
the planned industrial parks and proffered industrial districts delineated in subsections
(b)(1) and (2), no supporting retail sales or subordinate commercial use that would exceed
the by right thresholds in subsection (a) shall be expanded without a special exception as
required by subsection (a).
c. Accessory uses and structures. Accessory uses and structures are permitted within each
industrial district, subject to the following:
1. When accessory use is permitted. No accessory use is permitted until the primary use to
which it is accessory has been established.
2. When accessory structure is permitted. No accessory structure is permitted until either
construction of the primary structure or the primary use to which it is accessory has
commenced.
3. Prohibited accessory uses and structures. Parking structures, stand alone parking and
drive -through windows are permitted only as provided in subsection (a) and not otherwise
as accessory uses. The storage of sludge or toxic wastes, or both, is prohibited as an
accessory use; provided that the temporary storage of sludge or toxic wastes awaiting
proper disposal is a permitted accessory use.
d. Prohibited primary uses and structures. The following uses and structures are prohibited as
primary uses within each industrial district:
1. Incinerators. The establishment or use of an incinerator.
2. Manufacture of certain products. The manufacture of acetylene gas, acid, ammonia,
bleaching powder, chlorine, detergent and cleaning preparations made from animal fats,
explosives, fireworks, fish meal, nitrogenous tankage, paints, varnish, shellac that requires
distillation or heating ingredients, vinegar that is not derived from an agricultural product,
phosphates, and turpentine.
Sludge. The storage of sludge.
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4. Toxic wastes. The disposal or storage of toxic wastes regulated under the federal Toxic
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Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. § 2601 etseq.), provided that placing toxic wastes for
their lawful collection and disposal by a third party is not prohibited.
(§ 26.2, Ord. 13-18(1a, 4-3-13; § 26.3, 12-10-80; 11-7-84; Ord. 18-18-(1), 1-10-18)
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