Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions.
- Geographic extent
- Areas subject to inundation by the one hundred-year flood
Uses
Permitted by right4
- Agricultural uses, such as general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, and wild crop harvesting
- Public and private recreational uses and activities, such as parks, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat launching, and swimming areas, hiking, and horseback riding trails, wildlife and nature preserves
- Accessory residential uses, such as yard areas, gardens, play areas, and pervious parking areas
- Accessory industrial and commercial uses, such as yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport land strips, etc.
Conditional / special use5
- Structures, except for mobile homes, accessory to the uses and activities in (h) above
- Utilities and public facilities and improvements, such as railroads, streets, bridges, transmission lines, pipe lines, water and sewage treatment plants, and other similar or related uses
- Water-related uses and activities, such as marinas, docks, wharves, piers, etc.
- Temporary uses, such as circuses, carnivals, and similar activities
- Other similar uses and activities provided they cause no increase in flood height and/or velocities
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Base flood elevation data for subdivisions
Within the Approximated Floodplain District, proposals for all new subdivisions, manufactured home parks/subdivisions (greater than fifty (50) lots or five (5) acres, whichever is lesser), shall include base flood elevation data.
- Storm drainage facilities
Storm drainage facilities shall be designed to convey the flow of stormwater runoff in a safe and efficient manner. The system shall insure proper drainage along streets, and provide positive drainage away from buildings. The system shall also be designed to prevent the discharge of excess runoff onto adjacent properties.
- No encroachment in floodway
No encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses performed in accordance with standard engineering practices that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in the one hundred-year flood elevation.
- No filling or gradingGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. in floodplains
No filling or grading, either temporary or permanent, shall be allowed within any areas (floodplains) inundated by the one hundred-year frequency flood, unless it can be demonstrated, through detailed engineering analysis that such filling or grading will have no effect on the one hundred-year frequency flood level or that satisfactory channel improvements will be made to compensate for the filling or grading such that the one hundred-year frequency flood level is not changed.
- Recreational vehicle placement
Recreational vehicles placed on sites shall either be on the site for fewer than 180 consecutive days, be fully licensed and ready for highway use; or meet the permit requirements for placement and the elevation and anchoring requirements for manufactured homes as contained in the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.
From the ordinance
The various floodplain districts shall include the special flood hazard areas.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Storage of materials and equipment, provided that they are not buoyant, flammable or explosive, and are not subject to major damage by flooding, or provided that such material and equipment is firmly anchored to prevent flotation or movement, and/or can be readily removed from the area within the time available after flood warning"
]
}
}