Botetourt County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 25-414, 25-419
Dimensional standards
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Floodway
- Geographic extent
- Floodway sub-district as shown on flood boundary and floodway maps
Uses
Permitted by right4
- Agricultural uses (general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, wild crop harvesting)
- Public and private recreational uses (parks, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat-launching and swimming areas, horseback riding and hiking trails, wildlife and nature preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, trap and skeet game ranges, hunting and fishing areas)
- Accessory residential uses (yard areas, gardens, play areas, loading areas)
- Accessory industrial and commercial uses (yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport landing strips)
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Manufactured homesManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. except in existing parks
The placement of any manufactured home (mobile home), except in an existing manufactured home (mobile home) park or subdivision, within the floodway sub-district is specifically prohibited.
- Encroachments prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. unless certified no increase in flood levels
Encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements and other developments are prohibited unless certification such as hydrologic and hydraulic analyses is provided demonstrating that encroachments shall not result in any increase in flood levels during occurrence of the base flood.
- No new residential or commercial uses
No new residential or commercial uses shall be permitted in the floodway sub-district.
From the ordinance
In the floodway sub-district, the following uses and activities are permitted provided that they are in compliance with the provisions of the underlying district and are not prohibited by any other ordinance and provided that they do not require structures, fill, or storage of materials and equipment: ...