Goochland County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 15-456.A(3)
Approximated FloodplainAll Goochland County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
Servicing
- Applies near
- Zone A
- Geographic extent
- Areas designated as Zone A on the FIRM, where no detailed flood profiles or elevations are provided
Uses
Permitted by right9
- Agricultural use, such as general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, and wild crop harvesting
- Accessory residential use, such as yard areas, garden, play area, and pervious loading areas
- Game farm; fish hatchery (excluding rearing structure); hunting and fishing reserves; boat landing
- Hunting; fishing
- Outlet installation for sewage treatment plant; sealed public or private water supply well
- Public park; public recreational facility
- Public utility distribution facility
- Retaining wall; channel improvement; flood retention dam and levee; culvert and bridge; all approved by state department of highways
- Wildlife preserve; conservation area; woodland preserve; arboretum
Conditional / special use10
- Accessory use customarily and clearly incidental and subordinate to use permitted by right
- Carnival; circus; fair; any similar transient amusement enterprise
- Commercial campground
- Gas transmission line
- Park; playground; day camp; picnic ground; golf course; golf driving range; miniature golf course; yacht club
- Paved off-street parking, or loading and unloading area related to a use in an adjoining district
- Public and commercial swimming pool
- Public utility transmission line (including liquid and natural gas), transmission tower, pipe, meter, railroad
- Roadside stand for the sale of fish bait, or agricultural or horticultural products produced on the premises
- Structure customarily accessory and clearly incidental and subordinate to agricultural uses; park, playground, day camp, picnic ground, golf course/driving range, yacht club; sand and gravel pit and quarry, soil removal, mining operation; and commercial campground
Prohibited4
- Any use or structure not of a character indicated in the allowable uses and structures chart in Sec. 15-463
- Manufactured homes
- Filling in with dirt, gravel, minerals or refuse, or regrading of land in a floodplain in any manner that would obstruct, interfere, or otherwise adversely affect flow patterns and currents during flooding
- Private package sewage treatment plants, including conventional and alternative onsite septic systems, except for replacement systems as provided in Sec. 15-465
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Base flood elevation determination
Where the specific base flood elevation cannot be determined for this area using other sources of data, the applicant must determine this elevation in accordance with hydrologic and hydraulic engineering techniques.
From the ordinance
The approximated floodplain district, designated as Zone A, is that floodplain area for which no detailed flood profiles or elevations are provided, but where a base flood boundary has been approximated.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Office quarters housed in a temporary structure such as a mobile home or trailer which may be readily towed or otherwise removed from the flood fringe prior to inundation by floodwaters",
"Pulpwood receiving and storage yard, wood shipping scale, scale house, pumping station, and loading dock, provided these structures do not impede the flow of floodwaters or restrict the flow of debris"
]
}
}