Surry County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 2-102
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay
- Geographic extent
- Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area (CBPA) consisting of Resource Protection Area (RPA) and Resource Management Area (RMA)
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Resource Protection Area buffer width100 ft
Resource protection area (RPA) buffer. A 100-foot wide area of existing or established vegetation within the RPA that protects other components of the RPA and state waters from significant degradation associated with land disturbances.
- Substantial alteration disturbance threshold in RMA2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Substantial alteration. Expansion or modification of a building or development that would result in a disturbance of land exceeding an area of 2,500 square feet in the resource management area only.
From the ordinance
Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area (CBPA). Any land designated by Surry County pursuant to Part III (9 VAC 25-830-70 et seq.) of the Chesapeake Bay Area Designation and Management Regulations and § 62.1-44.15:74 of the Act. A Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area shall consist of a resource protection area and a resource management area.