Section 72-34.3 C(1)(a)[6]
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas known as Coastal High Hazard areas, extending from offshore to inland limit of primary frontal dune along open coast or other areas subject to high velocity waves.
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size limit600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Accessory structures in the SFHA shall be limited to no more than 600 square feet in total floor area.
- Anchoring
New construction and substantial improvements shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement.
- Breakaway walls
Breakaway walls with design safe loading resistance 10-20 psf.
- Elevation on pilings or columns1.5 ft
Elevated on pilings/columns to BFE + 1.5 ft (or 2 ft if perpendicular).
- FillGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. for structural support prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
The use of fill for structural support of buildings is prohibited.
- Flood-resistant materials
New construction and substantial improvements shall be constructed with materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage.
- Sand dune alteration prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
The man-made alteration of sand dunes, which would increase potential flood damage, is prohibited.
- Space below lowest floor use
Space below lowest floor used solely for parking, access, or storage; not partitioned or temperature-controlled.
From the ordinance
All new construction and substantial improvements in Zones V and VE, including manufactured homes, shall be elevated on pilings or columns so that the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member of the lowest floor is elevated to or above the base flood level plus 1.5 feet...