Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- floodway
- Geographic extent
- Areas identified as floodway in the Flood Insurance Study
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, hiking and horseback riding 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, pervious loading areas)
- Accessory industrial and commercial uses (yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport landing strips)
Prohibited2
- Manufactured homes (except in existing manufactured home parks or subdivisions)
- Any development that increases flood heights unless offset by improvements
Extracted standards
2 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.
The placement of manufactured homes (mobile homes) is prohibited, except in an existing manufactured homes (mobile homes) park or subdivision.
- No increase in flood levels
Encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements and other developments are prohibited unless certification by a registered professional engineer is provided demonstrating that encroachments shall not result in any increase in flood levels during occurrence of the base flood.
From the ordinance
In the floodway district no development shall be permitted except where the effect of such development on flood heights is fully offset by accompanying improvements which have been approved by all appropriate local and/or state authorities, as required above.