Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas within AE Zone delineated as floodway on FIRM (none currently delineated in Surry County)
Uses
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- CLOMR required for development increasing flood levels
Development activities which increase the water surface elevation of the base flood may be allowed, provided that the applicant first applies - with Surry County's endorsement - for a conditional letter of map revision (CLOMR), and receives the approval of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- No encroachment without no-rise analysis
Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis ... that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.
From the ordinance
Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis ... that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.