Richmond, Va., City Code § 30-452.1 Permitted principal and accessory uses.
Sec. 30-452.1. - Permitted principal and accessory uses.
The following uses of buildings and premises shall be permitted in the M-1 district:
(1) Any use permitted in the district as set forth in section 30-438.1, provided that:
a. The prohibition of uses outside of enclosed buildings shall not be applicable in this district;
b. Except for emergency housing uses, subject to the provisions of Section 30-698, no building shall be erected for dwelling use or converted to such use unless permitted by the board of zoning appeals pursuant to the provisions of Section 17.20 of the Charter, in which event such use shall be discontinued within ten years from the date such use is permitted, provided that a building may be used for dwelling purposes by a guard, caretaker or watchman employed in connection with the use of a building or premises permitted in this district;
(2) The following uses and any similar uses which are not likely to create any more offensive noise, vibration, dust, heat, smoke, odor, glare or other objectionable influence than the minimum amount normally resulting from other uses permitted; such permitted uses being generally light industries that manufacture, process, store and distribute goods and materials and are in general dependent upon raw materials refined elsewhere, and manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging or treatment as specified of the following or similar products:
a. Food and beverages:
1. Baked goods.
2. Beverages: blending and bottling plants.
3. Chocolate, cocoa and cocoa products: processing and packaging.
4. Coffee, tea and spices: processing and packaging.
5. Condensed milk: processing and canning.
6. Dairy products: creameries and plants.
7. Fruit and vegetable processing, including canning, preserving, drying and freezing.
8. Gelatin products.
9. Glucose and dextrine.
10. Macaroni and noodle manufacturing.
11. Meat products: packing and processing, but not including slaughtering.
12. Oleomargarine: compounding and packaging.
13. Poultry packaging and slaughtering.
b. Metal and metal products:
1. Agricultural or farm implements.
2. Aircraft and aircraft parts.
3. Aluminum extrusion, rolling, fabrication and forming.
4. Automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle and bicycle assembly.
5. Bolts, nuts, screws, washers and rivets.
6. Containers (metal).
7. Culverts.
8. Firearms.
9. Foundries and foundry products manufacturing.
10. Heating, ventilating, refrigeration and appliance supplies and equipment.
11. Iron or structural steel fabrication.
12. Nails, brads, tacks, spikes and staples.
13. Needles and pins.
14. Plating (electrolytic process).
15. Plumbing supplies.
16. Safes and vaults.
17. Sheet metal products.
18. Silverware and plated ware.
19. Tool, die, gauge and machine shops.
20. Tools and hardware products.
21. Vitreous enameled products.
c. Textiles, bedding and fibers:
1. Garment making, repair and tailoring.
2. Hats.
3. Hosiery mill.
4. Knitting, weaving, printing, dyeing and finishing of textiles and fibers into fabric goods.
5. Rubber and synthetic treated fabrics, but not including rubber and synthetic processing.
6. Yarn, threads and cordage.
d. Wood and paper products:
1. Baskets and hampers.
2. Boxes and crates.
3. Forests and wildlife preserves: public and private.
4. Furniture.
5. Pencils.
6. Pulp goods and paper processing, but not including pulp milling.
7. Shipping containers.
8. Trailers and wagons.
e. Unclassified uses:
1. Animal, poultry and bird raising.
2. Animal pound for detention only.
3. Boat manufacturing (vessels less than five tons).
4. Building materials storage and sales.
5. Bus and other transportation terminals, garages and repair shops.
6. Button manufacturing.
7. Carbon paper and inked ribbon manufacturing.
8. Chewing gum manufacturing.
9. Clay, stone and glass products.
10. Cigar, cigarette, chewing and smoking tobacco manufacturing.
11. Circus and fairgrounds.
12. Coal and coke storage and sales.
13. Concrete products.
14. Contractors' shops and storage yards.
15. Drive-in or outdoor theatres.
16. Dry cleaning and laundering.
17. Exhibition space: enclosed or unenclosed.
18. Electric transformer stations, substations and generating plants.
19. Entertainment and recreational uses.
20. Feed and grain storage.
21. Flour and feed packaging and blending.
22. Fur finishing.
23. Grain blending and packing, but not including milling.
24. Greenhouses.
25. Ice manufacturing.
26. Industrial and vocational training schools.
27. Insecticides, fungicides, disinfectants and related industrial and household chemical compounds (blending only).
28. Kennels.
29. Laboratories and research facilities.
30. Leather goods manufacturing, but not including tanning operations.
31. Livery stables and riding academies.
32. Malt products manufacturing, but not including breweries producing more than 100,000 barrels of beer or distilleries producing more than 250,000 cases of liquor per year.
33. Motion picture production.
34. Pottery and porcelain products.
35. Propagation and cultivation of crops, flowers, trees and shrubs.
36. Public utility storage yard.
37. Railroad passenger and freight depots.
38. Repair and servicing of diesel engines.
39. Repair, servicing, sale and storage of heavy construction equipment.
40. Sanitary landfills operated by governmental agencies.
41. Storage of petroleum products for distribution within the metropolitan area.
42. Support structures used in connection with wireless communications facilities, radio and television broadcast antennas and microwave relay facilities, in accordance with the additional requirements of Sections 30-692.1 through 30-692.6.
43. Wholesale, warehouse and distribution establishments.
(3) Adult entertainment establishments, adult book stores, adult motion picture theaters, and massage parlors, provided that the property devoted to any such use shall not be situated within 1,000 feet of property in an R or RO district, nor within 1,000 feet of any property occupied by a church or other place of worship, public or private elementary, intermediate or high school, public library, lodginghouse, tourist home, day care center, nursing home, hotel, motel or other adult entertainment establishment, adult book store, adult motion picture theater or massage parlor;
(4) Parking areas and parking lots.
(5) Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to uses permitted in this district.
(Code 1993, § 32-452.1; Code 2004, § 114-452.1; Code 2015, § 30-452.1; Code 2020, § 30-452.1; Ord. No. 2004-180-167, § 1, 6-28-2004; Ord. No. 2013-33-37, § 1, 3-25-2013; Ord. No. 2020-209, § 1, 10-12-2020; Ord. No. 2020-261, § 1, 3-8-2021; Ord. No. 2024-314, § 2(30-452.1), 12-9-2024)