Cumberland County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 74-907(1), 74-916

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Applies near
Floodway on FIRM
Geographic extent
Areas designated as Floodway on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, within AE zones.

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, swimming areas, horseback riding, hiking trails, wildlife preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, trap and skeet shooting 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)

Prohibited1

  • Manufactured homes (except in existing manufactured home parks or subdivisions)

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • CLOMR required for increase

    Development activities which increase the water surface elevation of the base flood may be allowed, provided that the applicant first applies with Cumberland County's endorsement for a conditional letter of map revision (CLOMR) and receives the approval of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

  • Encroachment prohibition

    No encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development, shall be permitted within the floodway unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in flood levels.

  • The placement of manufactured homes (mobile homes) is prohibited, except in an existing manufactured home (mobile home) park or subdivision.

From the ordinance

The floodway district is in an AE zone and is delineated, for purposes of this article, using the criterion that certain areas within the floodplain must be capable of carrying the waters of the one percent (1%) annual chance flood without increasing the water surface elevation of that flood more than one (1) foot at any point.
Sec. 74-907(1), 74-916