Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Catoctin Creek, Goose Creek, Crooked Run
- Geographic extent
- Streams and creeks within corporate limits including South Fork of Catoctin Creek, North Fork of Goose Creek and Crooked Run
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Buffer does not limit density
The stream and creek buffer are not intended to, and shall not, limit development density (gross floor area or units per acre) otherwise allowed on land within the stream and creek buffer area
- Major stream bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed. width100 ft
For streams with major floodplains (streams where the watershed is greater than 640 acres): A minimum of 100 feet on each side of the creek measured from the channel scar line
- Minor stream bufferRiparian bufferA strip along a stream or wetland that must be left undisturbed. width35 ft
For streams with minor floodplains (streams with a watershed of less than 640 acres, but greater than 100 acres): A minimum of 35 feet on each side of the stream or creek measured from the channel scar line
- Streamside forested area width25 ft
Within the 100-foot buffer, a streamside forested area of at least 25 feet on each side of the creek or stream shall be provided.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from wetlands35 ft
Where wetlands exist adjacent to a major or minor stream buffer, a setback of at least 35 feet shall be maintained from all wetlands for all structures and impervious surfaces.
From the ordinance
Major stream buffer: 100 feet on each side... Minor stream buffer: 35 feet... Wetlands setback: 35 feet.