Falls Church, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 48-612

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Geographic extent
Applies to all lands within the city identified as areas of special flood hazard on the FIRM or FIS.

Extracted standards

2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Floodplain

  • Development must be protected and/or floodproofed

    Requiring all those uses, activities, and developments that do occur in flood-prone districts to be protected and/or floodproofed against flooding and flood damage.

  • Restrict or prohibit certain uses in flood-prone districts

    Restricting or prohibiting certain uses, activities, and development from locating within districts subject to flooding.

From the ordinance

The purpose of these provisions is to prevent: the loss of life, health, or property... by (1) Regulating uses... (2) Restricting or prohibiting certain uses... (3) Requiring all those uses... to be protected and/or floodproofed...
Sec. 48-612