Sec. 23-7.5.4, 23-7.5.5, 23-7.5.6
Dimensional standards
Lot
Uses
Prohibited18
- Storage or production of hazardous waste
- Transmission pipelines for liquefied natural gas, liquid petroleum products, slurry coal, or any other solids or liquids, except water lines, sewer lines and storm sewers
- Feed lots for more than fifty (50) animals
- Land application of biosolids
- On-site sewerage system drainfield or reserve drainfield spaces or septic tanks within 250 feet of mean high water lines
- Feed lots within proximity areas
- Bulk storage of petroleum or asphalt products within proximity areas
- Sanitary landfills within proximity areas
- Storage or production of hazardous materials within proximity areas (except residential/agricultural uses)
- Sewage pumping stations within proximity areas
- Construction of buildings other than gazebos, picnic shelters or similar structures without restroom facilities within buffer areas
- Trash containers and/or dumpsters except for small (less than 50 gallons) containers within buffer areas
- Sewer transmission lines and sewage pumping stations within buffer areas
- On-site sewerage system drainfield or reserve drainfield spaces or septic tanks within buffer areas
- Any use which removes vegetative ground cover within buffer areas
- Subdivision of land for residential purposes below mean high water line
- Any development requiring a land disturbing permit below mean high water line
- Any construction of buildings below mean high water line
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum underground fuel storage near flood easement550 gal
There shall be no storage of liquid fuels in underground containers exceeding five hundred fifty (550) gallons in capacity within one hundred (100) feet of any flood easement area.
- Minimum buffer width adjacent to reservoir150 ft
A buffer area shall be maintained adjacent to the mean high water line and shall be no less than one hundred fifty (150) feet in width.
- Minimum buffer width adjacent to perennial streams75 ft
A buffer area shall be maintained adjacent to any perennial stream or river and shall be no less than seventy-five (75) feet in width.
- Disturbance area requiring site plan2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Before the issuance of a land disturbing activity permit for any activity that will disturb more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) square feet of land, excluding agricultural operations, a site plan for the control of erosion and sediment runoff shall be submitted to and approved by the Department of Code Compliance.
- Minimum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for septic within 200 ft of flood easement54,450 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No septic tanks or septic tank drainfield shall be allowed within one hundred (100) feet of the floodwater easement of the reservoir or on less than one and one-fourth (1¼) acres of land, if within two hundred (200) feet of the flood easement.
- Minimum pit privy distance from reservoir1,500 ft
Pit privies are prohibited within one thousand five hundred (1,500) feet of the reservoir.
- Minimum septic distance from floodwater easement100 ft
No septic tanks or septic tank drainfield shall be allowed within one hundred (100) feet of the floodwater easement of the reservoir or on less than one and one-fourth (1¼) acres of land, if within two hundred (200) feet of the flood easement.
- Minimum septic distance from mean high water line250 ft
On-site sewerage system drainfield or reserve drainfield spaces or septic tanks located within two hundred fifty (250) feet of the mean high water lines
- Minimum sewage lift station distance from flood easement800 ft
No sewage lift station shall be allowed within eight hundred (800) feet of any floodwater easement without having a tank or seep-proof lagoon with a storage capacity sufficient to hold all sewage coming into such lift station for a twelve-hour period.
From the ordinance
A buffer area shall be maintained adjacent to the mean high water line and shall be no less than one hundred fifty (150) feet in width... No septic tanks or septic tank drainfield shall be allowed within one hundred (100) feet of the floodwater easement of the reservoir or on less than one and one-fourth (1¼) acres of land, if within two hundred (200) feet of the flood easement.