Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Applies along rivers and major streams draining greater than 640 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.; also specific reduction for Town Branch upstream of Tuscarora Creek Valley Buffer and downstream of Dry Mill Road.
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Exemptions
The buffer setbacks of this section do not apply to agricultural, horticultural or forestall uses where a farm plan approved by the Loudoun County Soil and Water Conservation District or other Town and/or County approved agency is kept continuously in place.
- Measurement basis
from the channel scar line or stream centerline
- Capital improvement project buffer250 ft
required 250 feet setback
- Capital improvement reduced buffer50 ft
reduction of the required 250 feet setback down to a minimum of 50 feet
- Buffer does not limit density
The Creek Valley Buffer is not intended to and shall not limit development density (gross floor area or units per acre) otherwise allowed on land within the Creek Valley Buffer area.
- Existing lots of record
On any existing lot of record as of May 13, 2003 zoned RE, R1, R2, R-4, R-6 or R-8, a single-family residence and its attendant driveway, parking area and/or detached garage and incidental accessory structures may be permitted so long as there is not an existing residence on the property. The new residence cannot be within 150 feet of the stream centerline nor in floodplain, wetlands or steep slopes.
- Permitted uses within buffer
Only the following uses shall be permitted within required Creek Valley Buffer areas: 1. Water dependent or passive recreational uses that do not involve land-disturbing activities; 2. Improvements associated with historic, cultural or archeological sites; 3. Water and sewer lines.
- Reduced buffer with BMP credit50 ft
Allows a reduction of a required one hundred fifty (150)-foot buffer to fifty (50) feet subject to provision of onsite stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) consistent with the Design and Construction Standards Manual (DCSM).
- Standard Creek Valley Buffer setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.150 ft
required one hundred fifty (150)-foot buffer
- Town Branch buffer reduction0 ft
Allows a further reduction of a required buffer to as little as zero (0) feet subject to provision of all required onsite stormwater BMPs as well as additional BMPs that provide the water quality benefits equal to one and one-half (1.5) times the equivalent of what the disturbed buffer area would have provided if it were in a good quality forested condition for the portion of the buffer area disturbed closer than fifty (50) feet of the stream.
From the ordinance
govern the construction of buildings, structures, parking and other impervious surfaces in areas adjacent to rivers and major stream areas draining greater than 640 acres, by providing for a setback area from the channel scar line or stream centerline