Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- small streams and watercourses
- Applies within
- 50 ft
- Geographic extent
- Areas identified as A or A99 zones on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, including Bear Creek, unnamed tributary to Benges Branch, and land within 50 feet of the top of the bank of small streams and watercourses unless the developer demonstrates the property is free from flooding danger.
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Flood elevation determination
For areas where the specific 100-year flood elevation cannot be determined using other sources, the applicant shall determine this elevation in accordance with hydrologic and hydraulic engineering techniques.
- Minimum obstruction to flood flow
Any permitted structure or the filling of land shall be designed, placed, and constructed on the property so as to offer the minimum obstruction to and effect of the flow of floodwaters.
From the ordinance
In the approximated floodplain district the development and/or use of land shall be permitted in accordance with the regulations of the underlying district provided that all such uses, activities and/or development shall be undertaken in strict compliance with the floodproofing and related provisions contained in this and all other applicable codes and ordinances.