Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Map
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all lands identified as Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas (CBPA) as shown on the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Map. Performance standards in Section 10.24.120 apply Town-wide.
Extracted standards
23 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buffer encroachment (landward 75 ft)75 ft
Agricultural activities may encroach within the landward 75 feet of the one-hundred-foot wide buffer area when agricultural best management practices which address erosion control, nutrient management, and pest chemical control are being implemented
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. buffer encroachment (landward 50 ft)50 ft
Agricultural activities may encroach into the landward 50 feet of the one-hundred-foot wide buffer area when at least one agricultural best management practice...is being implemented
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. nonpoint source pollution reduction40 pct
achieve a forty-percent reduction in nonpoint source pollution from agricultural uses.
- Alternating drainfield minimum area50 pct
Each of the two alternating drainfields shall have, at a minimum, an area of not less than 50% of the area that would otherwise be required if a single primary drain field were constructed.
- Buffer encroachment seaward limit50 ft
The encroachment may not extend into the seaward 50 feet of the buffer area.
- Buffer nutrient reduction40 pct
and a forty-percent reduction of nutrients.
- Buffer sediment reduction75 pct
The one-hundred-foot buffer area shall be deemed to achieve a seventy-five-percent reduction of sediments
- Resource Protection Area buffer width100 ft
a one-hundred-foot buffer area located adjacent to and landward of the components listed above and along both sides of any water body with perennial flow.
- Drainfield valve alternation frequency12 months
The valve shall be used to alternate the drain fields every 12 months.
- Land disturbance threshold for Plan of Development2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All development and redevelopment within a Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area resulting in 2,500 square feet or more of land disturbance shall be subject to a Plan of Development Process
- Major Water Quality Impact Assessment threshold5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A major water quality impact assessment shall be required for any development which exceeds 5,000 square feet of land disturbance within CBPA's and is located in an RMA.
- Minimum two-way drive width22 ft
Two-way drives may be a minimum of 22 feet in width.
- Minor Water Quality Impact Assessment threshold5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minor water quality impact assessment pertains only to development within CBPA's which causes no more than 5,000 square feet of land disturbance.
- NonconformingNonconformingLawful when built, but not compliant with the rules now in force; usually allowed to continue but not to expand. waiver expiration12 months
A nonconforming use and noncomplying structure waiver shall become null and void 12 months from the date issued if no substantial work has commenced.
- Redevelopment nonpoint source pollution reduction10 pct
For redevelopment sites, the nonpoint source pollution load shall be reduced by at least 10%.
- Reserve sewage disposal site required
A reserve sewage disposal site with a capacity at least equal to that of the primary sewage disposal site shall be provided
- Resource Management Area width100 ft
The Resource Management Area is composed of an area 100 feet in width surrounding Resource Protection Areas
- Septic system pumpout frequency5 years
All on-site sewage disposal systems not requiring a VPDES permit shall be pumped out at least once every five years
- Tree preservation threshold2 in
Existing trees over two inches diameter at breast height (DBH) shall be preserved outside the approved construction footprint.
- Tree protection barrier distance from dripline5 ft
suitable protective barriers, like safety fencing, shall be erected 5 feet outside the dripline of any tree or stand of trees to be preserved.
Parking
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. space area162 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Parking space size may be 162 square feet.
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. space length18 ft
parking space length may be 18 feet.
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. space width9 ft
Parking space width may be nine feet
From the ordinance
The Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Ordinance shall apply to all lands identified as CBPA's as designated by the Bowling Green Town Council and as shown generally on the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Map. All of the performance standards in Section 10.24.120 will apply Town-wide.