Hanover County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Section 26-235.1 through 26-235.19
FloodplainAll Hanover County Unincorporated districts0
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- SFHA
- Geographic extent
- Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) as shown on Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and described in section 26-235.15
Uses
Accessory1
Prohibited2
- Manufactured homes (except in existing manufactured home parks)
- Emergency service, medical service, governmental records storage (except variance)
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Max accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Accessory structures are not to exceed 600 square feet.
- Enclosure openings
Provide a minimum of two openings on different sides, total net area at least 1 sq inch per sq foot, bottom no higher than 1 foot above adjacent grade.
- Floodproofing for nonresidential
Nonresidential buildings may be floodproofed in lieu of elevation.
- Freeboard1 ft
base flood level plus one (1) foot
- Lowest floor elevation1 ft above BFE
lowest floor, including basement, elevated to or above the base flood level plus one (1) foot.
Placement of manufactured homes is prohibited, except in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. uses in mapped floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions.
No emergency service, medical service, governmental records storage shall be allowed except by exceptions using the variance process.
From the ordinance
All new construction and substantial improvements shall have lowest floor elevated to or above base flood level plus one foot. Manufactured homes prohibited except in existing parks.