Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Special Flood Hazard Area
- Geographic extent
- All lands within the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) as identified on FEMA FIRM dated January 11, 2024
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum size of accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures in SFHA600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Accessory structures located in the SFHA are not to exceed 600 square feet.
- Floodproofing requirement
Requiring all those uses, activities, and developments that do occur in flood-prone districts to be protected and/or flood-proofed against flooding and flood damage.
- Floodway criteria0.5 ft
The Floodway District is in an AE Zone and is delineated... using the criterion that certain areas within the floodplain must be capable of carrying the waters of the one percent annual chance flood without increasing the water surface elevation of that flood more than 0.5-feet at any point.
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)...