Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas (CBPA), including Resource Protection Areas (RPA) and Resource Management Areas (RMA)
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffer encroachment limit from water50 ft
The encroachment may not extend into the seaward 50 feet of the buffer area.
- Buffer area width100 ft
a one-hundred-foot buffer area of vegetation that is effective in retarding runoff, preventing erosion and filtering nonpoint pollution from runoff shall be retained if present and established where it does not exist.
- Land disturbance threshold for erosion control2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
any land-disturbing activity exceeding 2,500 square feet, including construction of all single-family houses, septic tanks and drainfields, shall comply with the requirements of Article 7.02, Erosion and Sediment Control
- New development pollution limit
For development, the post-development nonpoint source pollution runoff load shall not exceed the predevelopment load
- Plan of Development threshold2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Any development or redevelopment within CBPA's exceeding 2,500 square feet of land disturbance shall be accomplished through a Plan of Development Process
- Protective 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.
- 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
- Septic 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.
- 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.
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
- Minimum two-way drive width22 ft
Two-way drives may be a minimum of 22 feet in width.
From the ordinance
Land disturbance shall be limited to the area necessary to provide for the proposed use or development.