Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay and Rappahannock River
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all lands designated as Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas, including resource protection areas and resource management areas
Uses
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Resource protection area buffer width100 ft
Vegetated buffer areas 100 feet in width, located adjacent to and landward of RPAs.
- ImperviousImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios. cover minimization
Land development shall minimize impervious cover to promote infiltration of stormwater into the ground.
- Land disturbance threshold for erosion control2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Any land disturbance exceeding an area of 2,500 square feet shall comply with the City's erosion and sediment control requirements.
- Redevelopment non-point-source pollution reduction10 pct
For redevelopment of land that has been previously developed, the non-point-source pollution load shall be reduced by at least 10%.
- Tree preservation diameter8 in
Trees over eight inches diameter at breast height shall be preserved outside the construction footprint.
From the ordinance
The CBPO standards in this section shall be applied in addition to all other applicable base and overlay zoning district standards.