Sec. 14-26

Other

• AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. land clearing exemption

  Clearing of lands specifically for agricultural purposes and the management, tilling, planting, or harvesting of agricultural, horticultural, or forest crops, livestock feedlot operations, or as additionally set forth by the state board in regulations

• Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act area

  all areas of jurisdictions designated as subject to the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Designation and Management Regulations (9VAC 25-830) adopted pursuant to the provisions of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act

• Minimum disturbed area exempt from permit2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.

  Disturbed areas for commercial or noncommercial uses of less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet in size; provided, however, that the city council may reduce this exception to a smaller area of disturbed land and/or qualify the conditions under which this exception shall apply.

• Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. residence exemption from stormwater permit1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.

  Single-family residences separately built and disturbing less than one acre and not part of a larger common plan of development or sale, including additions or modifications to existing single-family detached residential structures;