Essex County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Section 36.710

Extracted standards

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

Environmental

  • Chesapeake Bay buffer restriction

    No land disturbance or vegetation removal is allowed in the Chesapeake Bay buffer area without review and approval by the Zoning Administrator

  • Resource Protection Area restriction

    Only water-dependent facilities or redevelopment is allowed in Resource Protection Areas, including the 100-foot wide buffer area

Other

  • Reserve drainfield requirement100 pct

    100% reserve drainfield is required for on-site sewage treatment systems

  • Septic pump out frequency5 years

    On-site septic systems must be pumped out every five years, or a certification must be submitted by a sewage handler permitted by the Virginia Department of Health that the septic system has been inspected, is functioning properly, and the tank does not need to have the solids pumped out

  • Boundary survey closure10,000 ratio

    field error of closure within the limit of one in ten thousand (1 in 10,000)

  • Plat scale200 ft/inch

    scale of not more than 200 feet to the inch

From the ordinance

Blue line or black line prints at a preferred scale of not more than 200 feet to the inch... boundary survey with a field error of closure within the limit of one in ten thousand (1 in 10,000)...
Section 36.710