41877 Cochran Mill Rd, Leesburg, VA 20175

Mineral Resource-Heavy Industry District

The purpose of the Mineral Resource-Heavy Industry MR-HI Zoning District is to: Implement the Suburban Industrial/Mineral Extraction, Transition Industrial/Mineral Extraction, and Joint Land Management Area JLMA-Leesburg Industrial/Mineral Extraction Place Types of the General Plan; Serve as an interim, long term Zoning District recognizing that areas devoted to resource extraction may and should ultimately be converted to other compatible and beneficial uses consistent with the General Plan; Protect the mineral resources, primarily diabase rock, of the County: For possible future economic development; To provide for diabase resource extraction operations at appropriate locations and under controlled conditions and To co-locate quarries and compatible heavy industrial uses; Provide a location for mineral extraction and intensive industrial uses that are incompatible with residential uses due to the prevalence of emissions of noise, odor, and vibrations to operate; Ensure compatibility and long term, commercial viability of mineral extraction and intensive industrial uses and accessory uses through the use of screening and setbacks from road and adjacent residential uses; Provide for development with limited traffic and aesthetic impacts on surrounding properties and public facilities and utilities and Permit residential and other uses only to the extent that they may be compatible with mineral extraction and associated intensive industrial uses.