Powhatan County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 83-471(a)
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- perennial and intermittent streams, wetlands
- Geographic extent
- All new development abutting perennial and intermittent streams and jurisdictional wetlands
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffer reduction in village growth area districts50 pct
The director may allow development to reduce the minimum riparian buffer width required by subsection a. above by up to 50 percent in the village growth area districts on determining that the development incorporates stormwater best management practices...
- Riparian bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed. width for intermittent streams or wetlands50 ft
The width of a riparian buffer abutting an intermittent stream or wetlands shall be at least 50 feet.
- Riparian bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed. width for perennial streams100 ft
The width of a riparian buffer abutting a perennial stream shall be at least 100 feet.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from riparian bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed. boundary25 ft
No part of any structure other than those expressly allowed by section 83-471(a)(5) shall be located with 25 feet of the boundary of a riparian buffer.
From the ordinance
The width of a riparian buffer abutting a perennial stream shall be at least 100 feet. The width of a riparian buffer abutting an intermittent stream or wetlands shall be at least 50 feet.