Amherst, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 24-353

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Geographic extent
Areas within the 100-year floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. designated as floodway on the FEMA flood insurance rate map.

Extracted standards

7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Floodplain

  • Floodway encroachment restriction

    No encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it is demonstrated that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in the 100-year flood elevation.

Other

From the ordinance

In the floodway district no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses performed in accordance with standard engineering practice that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in the 100-year flood elevation.
Sec. 24-353