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Big Stone Gap, Virginia · General provision

Section 12. FP Flood Plain District

FloodplainAll Big Stone Gap districts0

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Geographic extent
FP FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. Districts as overlays to the existing underlying zoning districts on the Official Zoning DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. Map of the Town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Uses

Permitted by right4

  • Agriculture and forestry, general farming, truck gardens, cultivation of field crops, orchards, nurseries, turf farming and livestock raising, including stands for sale of products raised on the premises
  • Open-type private or commercial recreational uses or facilities such as golf courses, driving ranges, archery ranges, tennis courts, camping areas, picnic grounds, horseback riding, drive-in-theaters, fishing lakes and boat docks
  • Storage yards for equipment and material not subject to major damage by floods or which may cause damage by floating away in flood waters and not including inflammables such as gasoline
  • Accessory uses incidental to and customarily found in connection with permitted uses of the premises

Conditional / special use4

  • Circus or carnival grounds or area for similar transient amusement enterprises
  • Parks, parkways and playgrounds
  • Public utilities or public service uses, buildings, generating purification or treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, sub-stations and transmission lines, all subject to applicable flood loss criteria
  • Excavation or filling, borrow pits, extraction, processing and removal of sand, gravel, stone, or other minerals and other major excavations or filling

Prohibited2

Extracted standards

4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Floodplain

  • Minimum fillGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. extension beyond structure25 ft

    Land may be filled provided such fill does not encroach into the Floodway Zone and provided such fill extends twenty-five (25) feet beyond the limits of any structure erected thereon

  • Main floor elevation relative to 100-year flood

    No building or structure shall be erected, and no existing building or structure shall be moved or altered unless the main floor of said building or structure is at a higher elevation then the 100-year flood

  • Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from stream10 ft

    no building shall be permitted within ten (10) feet of the top of bank of any stream

  • Stream encroachment review distance100 ft

    Any structure proposed to be located within one hundred (100) feet of any main drainage channel or stream (hereafter referred to as stream) within any zone must be approved by the Board of Zoning Appeals

From the ordinance

Article III, Section 9-17 ((b) Overlay Concept) of this Code shall delineate and establish the FP Floodplain Districts as overlays to the existing underlying zoning districts
Section 12. FP Flood Plain District

Use details

{
  "dropped_conditions": {
    "permitted_uses": [
      "Facilities and structures necessary for rendering public utility service, including poles, wires, transformers, telephone booths, and the like for normal electrical power distribution or communication service, and pipe lines or conduits for electrical, gas, sewer, or water service, but not including buildings, treatment plants, pumping or regulator stations, sub-stations and power transmission lines which are permitted as conditional uses"
    ]
  }
}