Article VI, Section 6-300
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)
- Geographic extent
- All privately and publicly owned lands within the jurisdiction of the City of Alexandria and identified as being in a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) identified by the community or included in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance study (FIS) or shown on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that are provided to the City of Alexandria by FEMA dated January 11, 2024.
Uses
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Anchoring requirement
New construction and substantial improvements shall be built according to this ordinance and the VA USBC, and anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement of the structure.
- Floodway encroachment restriction
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.
- Lowest floor elevation requirement
When such base flood elevation data is utilized, the lowest floor shall be elevated to or above the base flood level plus 1-foot.
- Manufactured homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. anchoring requirement
Manufactured homes including non-residential trailers shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement.
From the ordinance
These provisions shall apply to all privately and publicly owned lands within the jurisdiction of the City of Alexandria and identified as being in a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) identified by the community or included in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance study (FIS) or shown on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that are provided to the City of Alexandria by FEMA dated January 11, 2024.