Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay
- Geographic extent
- Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area (CBPA)
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Minor water quality assessment maximum disturbance5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
no more than 5,000 square feet of land disturbance
- Minimum nutrient removal40 pct
40 percent of nutrients
- Minimum sediment removal75 pct
no less than 75 percent of sediments
From the ordinance
A water quality impact assessment must demonstrate through acceptable calculations that the remaining buffer area and necessary best management practices will result in removal of no less than 75 percent of sediments and 40 percent of nutrients from post-development stormwater runoff. Minor assessment pertains to land disturbance no more than 5,000 square feet.