Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 36.546
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. development prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Land subject to flooding and land deemed to be topographically unsuitable, having unsuitable soils or inadequate light and air shall not be platted for residential occupancy nor for such other uses as may increase danger of health, life or property or may aggravate erosion or flood hazard.
From the ordinance
Land subject to flooding and land deemed to be topographically unsuitable, having unsuitable soils or inadequate light and air shall not be platted for residential occupancy...