Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 25-414, 25-419
Dimensional standards
Housing
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. designated as floodway on FIRM
Uses
Permitted by right7
- General farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, truck farming, horticulture, sod farming, wild crop harvesting
- Forestry and harvesting of forest products
- Open space uses (wildlife preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, fishing and hunting areas)
- Lawns, gardens, parking areas, play areas
- Temporary construction signs and property identification signs
- Railroads, streets, bridges, utility transmission lines, pipelines
- Other similar uses with no structure and not obstructing flood flows
Prohibited5
- Erection of structures or buildings
- Filling, grading, or excavation of land
- Storage of materials or equipment
- Installation of septic tanks or sewage disposal systems
- Construction of roads or driveways (except as permitted in Sec. 25-414)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- No encroachment
No use, structure, fill, deposit, obstruction or storage of materials or equipment will be permitted which will affect the capacity of the floodway or unduly increase flood limits.
- No increase in flood elevation
No development which increases flood heights and produces hazardous velocities shall be permitted in the floodway sub-district.
- Nonresidential floodproofing
Nonresidential structures shall be elevated or floodproofed to be watertight below base flood level.
- Residential construction elevation
New construction and substantial improvement of any residential structure shall have the lowest floor, including basement, elevated to or above the base flood elevation.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses limited to farming, forestry, open space, lawns, gardens, parking, signs, railroads, streets, bridges, utilities, pipelines. Prohibited: structures, filling, storage, septic tanks, roads except as permitted.