Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- All land in Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas as designated on the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas map adopted February 10, 2004, as amended.
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- ImperviousImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios. surface minimization
Development shall minimize impervious surface consistent with the proposed use or development.
- Indigenous vegetation preservation
Indigenous vegetation shall be preserved to the maximum extent practicable consistent with the proposed use(s) or development.
- Land disturbance threshold for performance criteria2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All development and redevelopment within RMAs and RPAs that exceed 2,500 square feet of land disturbance shall...
- Minimum distance from water for buffer encroachment50 ft
The encroachment may not extend into the buffer area that is 50 feet closest to the water body with perennial flow and/or its associated wetlands.
- RPA buffer width100 ft
A buffer area not less than 100 feet in width that is (i) along each side of any water body with perennial flow and (ii) located adjacent to and landward of nontidal wetlands...
- Water quality impact assessment threshold5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A major water quality impact assessment shall be required for any land disturbance, development or redevelopment in the RPA which (i) exceeds 5,000 square feet of land disturbance...
From the ordinance
A buffer area not less than 100 feet in width that is (i) along each side of any water body with perennial flow and (ii) located adjacent to and landward of nontidal wetlands...