Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas within AE Zone designated as floodway on the FIRM
Uses
Permitted by right5
- outdoor gardens for plants under two feet in height
- public and private recreational areas such as parks, day camps, picnic grounds, hiking and biking trails
- accessory residential purposes such as yard areas, gardens, play areas and parking and loading areas
- utilities and public facilities and improvements including railroads, streets, bridges, transmission lines, pipelines
- fences meeting criteria
Prohibited2
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- CLOMR required for increase
Development activities which increase the water surface elevation of the base flood may be allowed, provided that the applicant first applies, with the City of Falls Church endorsement, for a conditional letter of map revision (CLOMR), and receives the approval of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
- No encroachment without 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 performed in accordance with standard engineering practice 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
The placement of manufactured homes (mobile homes) is prohibited.