Surry County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 2-102

Dimensional standards

Extracted standards

1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Floodplain

  • Floodway definition

    Floodway. The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than a designated height.

From the ordinance

Floodplain means all lands that would be inundated by flood water as a result of a storm event of a 100-year return interval.
Sec. 2-102