Gloucester County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 34-457
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Flood Insurance Rate Map
- Geographic extent
- Flood hazard areas as delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Conditions for issuance of variances
Variances shall be issued only upon showing of good and sufficient cause, determination of exceptional hardship, minimum necessary relief, and recording in chain of title.
- VarianceVariancePermission to depart from a specific dimensional rule, granted on a showing of hardship. restriction in floodways
A variance shall not be issued for any proposed development in a floodway if any increase in base flood elevations would result.
From the ordinance
The planning commission shall hear and decide on requests for appeals and requests for variances from the strict application of this article.