Culpeper County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Article 15, Sec. 15-3
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- open stream or drainage channel
- Geographic extent
- Land subject to periodic or recurring flooding from storm water, or subject to the danger of erosion of the land underlying such structure, in proximity and relative elevation to an open stream or drainage channel.
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Fence exemption from floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. restriction
This provision shall not apply to the erection of fences or similar appurtenances.
- Land improvement allowed
Nothing herein provided shall be so construed as to prohibit the owner of such land from lawfully filling, draining or otherwise improving the land.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions.
No permit shall be issued for the erection of any permanent structure intended for residential, commercial or industrial use, nor shall any such structure be erected on land in such proximity and relative elevation to an open stream or drainage channel when the surface of such land is subject to periodic or recurring flooding from storm water, or subject to the danger of erosion of the land underlying such structure.
From the ordinance
No permit shall be issued for the erection of any permanent structure intended for residential, commercial or industrial use, nor shall any such structure be erected on land in such proximity and relative elevation to an open stream or drainage channel when the surface of such land is subject to periodic or recurring flooding from storm water, or subject to the danger of erosion of the land underlying such structure.