Sec. 6-4000 to 6-4012
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas designated as within the one-percent annual chance floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. on the FEMA FIRM for Isle of Wight County dated December 2, 2015
Uses
Prohibited9
- Landfills
- Junkyards
- Outdoor storage of inoperative vehicles
- Surface mines/borrow pits
- Manufacture, bulk storage, transformation or distribution of petroleum, chemical or asphalt products or any hazardous materials
- Storage or land application of industrial wastes
- Outdoor storage of equipment, materials, or supplies which are buoyant, flammable, or explosive
- Swimming pools or any other habitable use when the area beneath the elevated building is enclosed with walls
- Commercial feedlots
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Breakaway wall design safe-loading
A breakaway wall shall have a design safe-loading resistance of not less than ten (10) and no more than twenty (20) pounds per square foot.
- Coastal A zone freeboard18 in
All new construction and substantial improvements in coastal A zones... shall have the lowest floor elevated to or above the base flood elevation plus eighteen (18) inches of freeboard.
- FillGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. extension beyond building lines15 ft
Fill areas shall extend laterally a minimum of fifteen (15) feet beyond building lines from all points.
- FillGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. slope ratio
Fill areas shall be graded to a finished slope of no steeper than one (1) vertical to three (3) horizontal.
- Floodway encroachment prohibition
No encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted in the floodway unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in flood levels.
- Lowest floor elevation for nonresidential structures1 ft
The lowest floor elevation of any new nonresidential structure constructed within a floodplain area shall be at least one (1) foot above base flood elevation, unless such structure is floodproofed.
- Lowest floor elevation for residential structures1.5 ft
The lowest floor elevation of any new residential structure, including basements, constructed within a floodplain area shall be at least one and one-half (1½) feet above base flood elevation.
- V zone lowest horizontal structural member elevation1.5 ft
All new construction and substantial improvements elevated on pilings and columns must have the bottom of the lowest horizontal structural member of the lowest floor (excluding the pilings or columns) elevated at least one and one-half (1½) feet above the base flood level.
From the ordinance
The purpose of these provisions is to prevent the loss of life and property, the creation of health and safety hazards, the disruption of commerce and governmental services, the extraordinary and unnecessary expenditure of public funds for flood protection and relief, and the impairment of the tax base.