Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas identified as VE or V zones on the FIRM (coastal high hazard areas).
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Breakaway wall requirements
Breakaway walls shall have a design safe loading resistance of not less than ten and no more than 20 pounds per square foot.
- Enclosed space use
The enclosed space below the lowest floor shall be used solely for parking of vehicles, building access, or storage. Such space shall not be partitioned into multiple rooms, temperature-controlled, or used for human habitation. The enclosed space shall be less than 300 square feet.
- FillGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. prohibition
The use of fill for structural support of buildings is prohibited.
- Lowest horizontal structural member elevation1.5 ft
Bottom of lowest horizontal structural member elevated to BFE + 18 inches (parallel) or +1 foot (perpendicular).
- Piling foundation
The pile or column foundation and structure attached thereto is anchored to resist flotation, collapse, and lateral movement.
- Sand dune alteration prohibition
The man-made alteration of sand dunes, which would increase potential flood damage, is prohibited.
From the ordinance
All new construction and substantial improvements in Zones V and VE shall be elevated on pilings or columns so that the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member of the lowest floor is elevated to or above the base flood level plus 18 inches if the lowest horizontal structural member is parallel to the direction of wave approach or elevated at least one foot above the base flood level if the lowest horizontal structural member is perpendicular to the direction of wave approach.