Dimensional standards
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- FEMA flood boundary and floodway map
- Geographic extent
- Floodway districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. as delineated on the flood boundary and floodway map, areas within the 100-year floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. that must carry the 100-year flood without increasing water surface elevation more than one foot
Uses
Permitted by right4
- Agricultural uses such as general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, and wild crop harvesting
- Public and private recreational uses and activities such as parks, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat launching and swimming areas, hiking, and horseback riding trails, wildlife and nature preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, trap and skeet game ranges, and hunting and fishing areas
- Accessory residential uses such as yard areas, gardens, play areas, and pervious loading areas
- Accessory industrial and commercial uses such as yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport landing strips, etc.
Conditional / special use5
- Structures except for manufactured homes accessory to the uses and activities in subsection (b) of this section
- Utilities and public facilities and improvements such as railroads, streets, bridges, transmission lines, pipelines, water and sewage treatment plants, and other similar or related uses
- Water-related uses and activities such as marinas, docks, wharves, piers, etc.
- Extraction of sand, gravel, and other materials (where no increase in level of flooding or velocity is caused thereby)
- Temporary uses such as circuses, carnivals, and similar activities
Prohibited2
- Any encroachment, fill, new construction, substantial improvement, or other development that would cause any increase in the 100-year flood elevation
- Manufactured homes
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- No increase in 100-year flood elevation
No encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses performed in accordance with standard engineering practice that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in the 100-year flood elevation.
Other
- Floodproofing per Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code
All uses, activities, and structural developments shall be conducted in strict compliance with the floodproofing provisions contained in all other applicable codes and ordinances.
From the ordinance
In the floodway district, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses performed in accordance with standard engineering practice that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in the 100-year flood elevation. Permitted uses: agricultural, recreational, accessory residential, accessory industrial/commercial. Special use permit: structures, utilities, water-related, extraction, temporary, storage, other similar uses.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Storage of materials and equipment, provided that they are not buoyant, flammable or explosive, and are not subject to damage by flooding, or provided that such material and equipment is firmly anchored to prevent flotation or movement, and/or can be readily removed from the area within the time available after flood warning",
"Other similar uses and activities provided that they cause no increase in flood heights and/or velocities"
]
}
}