Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 25-415(b)
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Flood Insurance Rate Map
- Geographic extent
- Areas within the 100-year floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. without detailed flood profiles (zone A) on the Flood Insurance Rate Map for Botetourt County, dated December 17, 2010, as amended
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Base flood elevation determination required
Where the specific one hundred-year flood elevation cannot be determined for this area using other sources of data, an applicant for a proposed use, development and/or activity greater than fifty (50) lots or five (5) acres, whichever is lesser, shall determine this elevation.
- Lowest floor elevation1 ft above BFE
When such base flood elevation data is utilized, the lowest floor shall be elevated one (1) foot above the base flood elevation.
From the ordinance
The approximated floodplain district shall be that floodplain area for which no detailed flood profiles or elevations are provided, but where a one hundred-year floodplain boundary has been approximated. Such areas are shown as zone A on the maps accompanying the flood insurance study.