Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 25-414

Dimensional standards

Uses

Extracted standards

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

Floodplain

  • Encroachment prohibition

    Encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements and other developments are prohibited unless certification such as hydrologic and hydraulic analyses is provided demonstrating that encroachments shall not result in any increase in flood levels during occurrence of the base flood.

  • The placement of any manufactured home (mobile home), except in an existing manufactured home (mobile home) park or subdivision, within the floodway sub-district is specifically prohibited.

  • No increase in flood levels

    No use, structure, fill, deposit, obstruction or storage of materials or equipment will be permitted which, acting alone or in combination with existing or future uses, will result in affecting the capacity of the floodway or unduly increasing flood limits.

From the ordinance

In the floodway sub-district, the following uses and activities are permitted provided that they are in compliance with the provisions of the underlying district and are not prohibited by any other ordinance and provided that they do not require structures, fill, or storage of materials and equipment: (1) Agricultural uses... (2) Public and private recreational uses... (3) Accessory residential uses (but not habitable structures)... (4) Accessory industrial and commercial uses...
Sec. 25-414