Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- SFHA
- Geographic extent
- Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) as identified on FEMA flood insurance rate maps dated January 11, 2024
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size in SFHA600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Accessory structures located in the SFHA are not to exceed 600 square feet.
- Maximum floodway elevation increase0.5 ft
the floodway must be capable of carrying the waters of the one percent annual chance flood without increasing the water surface elevation of that flood more than 0.5-feet at any point.
From the ordinance
The floodplain district regulations in section 6-300 are adopted in compliance with floodplain management criteria set forth in regulations promulgated by FEMA.