Herndon, Virginia · General provision

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Dimensional standards

Extracted standards

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

Floodplain

  • Regulatory flood protection level1 ft

    Regulatory flood protection level. For floodplain management purposes, refers to a level of one foot, at minimum, above the 100-year floodplain.

  • Substantial damage threshold50 pct

    substantial damage means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.

  • Substantial improvement threshold50 pct

    substantial improvement means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the 'start of construction' of the improvement.

From the ordinance

Lowest floor. For purposes of flood insurance and administration of the floodplain overlay district the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area (including basement).
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