Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it.
- Applies within
- 500 ft
- Geographic extent
- Intensely Developed Areas (IDA) - areas within the Resource Protection Areas within the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area Overlay DistrictOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it. meeting specific criteria.
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- IDA housing density threshold4 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The housing density existing in the area of the lot equals or exceeds four dwelling units per acre;
Environmental
- IDA imperviousImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios. surface threshold50 pct
Development had severely altered the natural state of the lot such that it had more than 50 percent impervious surface;
Other
- IDA public water/sewer distance500 ft
a lot is deemed located in an area served by public water and sewer if sewer and water lines have been constructed and served the area on or before October 28, 1991, and if the lot at that time lay within 500 feet of water and sewer lines into which it was or may have been connected.
From the ordinance
Any developed or built-upon lot in an area in which development was concentrated as of October 28, 1991, so that little of the natural environment remained and this criterion has been continuously met since that time and remains at this time is hereby designated as an IDA by the Town Council...