Gloucester County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 34-153

Extracted standards

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

Floodplain

  • Floodprone land use restriction

    Land subject to flooding (floodprone areas) or land recommended by the town engineer to the planning commission to be uninhabitable shall not be platted for residential occupancy, nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property, or aggravate the flood hazard.

  • 100-year flood zone on plat

    Where land is subject to periodic flooding, 100-year flood zone limits must be shown on final plats.

Other

  • Minimum bridge width

    The minimum width of bridges shall meet state road specifications for arterial roads and shall be the minimum width of the paving section plus three feet of each side for all other roads.

  • Cul-de-sac sign

    All cul-de-sac and dead-end streets shall be marked with a sign indicating 'Dead End.'

  • Culvert standards

    Culverts shall be of such size as to provide adequate drainage opening, and of sufficient length to extend beyond the curb limits of a road. Culverts shall meet the standards specified by the town engineer, and be of sufficient size to meet adopted level of service standards.

  • Drainage system design

    A drainage system design prepared by a registered professional engineer is required which will include detailed construction plans, supportive calculations, and any additional information related or required therewith.

  • Maximum monument spacing1,400 ft

    in no case more than 1,400 feet apart

  • Minimum number of monuments2 count

    in no case less than two

  • Monument placement

    Monuments shall be placed at all block corners, angle points or curves in streets and at intermediate points as shall be required by the town engineer. A sufficient number of permanent reference monuments shall be set in each subdivision, in no case less than two and in no case more than 1,400 feet apart.

  • Post-development runoff standard

    In no case shall the design of the drainage system allow the water quantity and quality of postdevelopment stormwater runoff to exceed predevelopment runoff quality and quantity.

  • Protected tree preservation

    The planning commission may provide that protected trees as defined by article XI of this chapter shall not be removed from the right-of-way, where the preservation of such trees will not hinder the future maintenance of streets, drainage or utilities, or be a hazard to vehicular or pedestrian safety.

  • Retention area fencing and screening

    All water retention areas shall be fenced and shall be screened by appropriate trees or shrubbery, unless the retention area is designed to function as an artificial wetland.

  • Right-of-way clearing

    The developer shall be required to clear all rights-of-way to their full width and to make all grades, including grades for streets, alleys, and drainage to grades approved in the final plat.

  • Road base thickness (collector I)6 in

    Base: Without surface course; six inches minimum of compacted limerock or other suitable material, approved by the town engineer; alternately may be eight inches minimum of loose limerock or other suitable material mixed with clean sand, compacted after mixing and having a compacted depth of 12 inches. Base: With surface course; four inches minimum of compacted limerock or other suitable material, approved by the town engineer; alternately may be six inches minimum of loose limerock or other suitable material mixed with clean sand, compacted after mixing and having a compacted depth of 12 inches.

  • Road base thickness (collector II)6 in

    Base: Six inches minimum of compacted limerock or other suitable material, approved by the town engineer; alternately may be six inches minimum of loose limerock or other material mixed with clean sand, compacted after mixing and having a compacted depth of ten inches.

  • Road base thickness (local)6 in

    Base: Six inches minimum of compacted limerock or other suitable material, approved by the town engineer.

  • Subgrade stabilization depth (collector I)12 in

    stabilized subgrade must be a minimum of 12 inches in depth and must be approved by the town engineer.

  • Subgrade stabilization depth (collector II)12 in

    stabilized subgrade must be a minimum of 12 inches in depth and must be approved by the town engineer.

  • Subgrade stabilization depth (local)8 in

    stabilized subgrade must be a minimum of eight inches in depth stabilized with subgrade w/LBR 20 and must be approved by the town engineer.

  • Surface course thickness (collector)1 in

    Surface course (optional): One inch minimum D.O.T. type II asphaltic concrete or D.O.T. type 2 bituminous surface treatment, or D.O.T. double surface treatment.

  • Surface course thickness (local)1.25 in

    Surface course (optional): 1¼ inches minimum D.O.T. type I or type II asphaltic concrete or D.O.T. type 2 bituminous surface treatment, or D.O.T. double surface treatment.

  • Street naming convention

    Avenue shall be used only for streets that run in a generally east-west direction; Street shall be used only for streets that run in a generally north-south direction; Circle or Court shall be used only for cul-de-sac type streets that run in a generally north-south direction; Lane or Place shall be used only for cul-de-sac type streets that run in a generally east-west direction; Road or Way shall be used only for streets that run in a diagonal manner...

  • Street paving exception

    In any subdivision where all lots are five acres or more or less than 20 acres in size, roads may generally be unpaved (no surface course) according to the following requirements: ... All collector streets shall be paved. All section line streets shall be paved.

  • Street paving requirement

    In any subdivision where one or more lots are less than five acres in size, all roads shall be paved and shall be constructed to town's standards as provided herein.

  • The top of each sign shall be seven feet above the centerline grade of the road.

  • Street sign specifications

    Blue reflectorized background baked on six-inch wide aluminum blanks; Name letter shall be four-inch silver reflectorized letters;

From the ordinance

Town water (including fire hydrants) shall be provided in each new subdivision. ... Each lot within the subdivision area shall be provided with a connection to the town's public water supply and an adequate public sanitary sewer system ...
Sec. 34-153