Southampton County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 18-396(a)(1)
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas within the floodway of an AE zone as delineated on the FIRM.
Uses
Permitted by right4
- agricultural uses (general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, wild crop harvesting)
- public and private recreational uses (park, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat launching and swimming areas, hiking and horseback trails, wildlife and nature preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, hunting and fishing areas)
- accessory residential uses (yard areas, gardens, play areas, pervious loading areas)
- accessory industrial and commercial uses (yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport landing strips)
Conditional / special use5
- utilities and public facilities (railroads, streets, bridges, transmission lines, pipelines, water and sewage treatment plants)
- water-related uses (marinas, docks, wharves, piers)
- extraction of sand, gravel and other materials
- storage of materials and equipment
- other similar uses and activities
Prohibited1
- placement of manufactured homes (except in existing manufactured home parks or subdivisions)
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- No encroachment without analysis
Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels.
From the ordinance
Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis... that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels... Permitted uses: agricultural uses such as general farming, pasture, grazing... etc.