Section 19.2-46
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Swift Creek Reservoir Dam
- Geographic extent
- Upper Swift Creek Watershed, upstream of Swift Creek Reservoir Dam
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Natural resource inventory
An application for rezoning or conditional use in the Upper Swift Creek Watershed shall include a Natural Resource Inventory (NRI) for the proposed development site except as set forth below.
- NRI exemption disturbance threshold2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
An application is exempt from the requirement to provide a natural resource inventory if land disturbance of the proposed development site will be less than 2,500 square feet in area.
- Performance criteria
No more land shall be disturbed than is necessary; indigenous vegetation shall be preserved; land development shall minimize impervious cover.
Other
- Phosphorous load limit0.22 lbs/acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones./year
For any new use or development, the post-development, nonpoint-source pollution runoff loads of phosphorous shall not exceed 0.22 pounds per acre per year for the post-development total phosphorus load for residential uses subject to subdivision approval.
- Tree canopy requirement
All site plans and construction plans for subdivision plats shall include detailed landscape plans... to provide for the preservation, planting, and replacement of trees on-site to the extent that, at maturity of twenty years, the minimum tree canopy is as follows in Table 19.2-46.1.
From the ordinance
Any use, development, or redevelopment of land in the Upper Swift Creek Watershed shall meet the following performance criteria: No more land shall be disturbed than is necessary...