Tappahannock, Virginia · General provision
Article III, Section 3.1.A.4
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Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas shown as AO on the FIRM
Extracted standards
2 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Non-residential lowest floor or floodproofing
Non-residential structures: either elevated to specified flood level or floodproofed to that level.
- Residential lowest floor elevation
Residential structures: lowest floor elevated to or above flood depth specified on FIRM, or if no depth, at least 2 feet above highest adjacent grade.
From the ordinance
All new construction and substantial improvements of residential structures shall have the lowest floor, including basement, elevated to or above the flood depth specified on the FIRM... If no flood depth number is specified, the lowest floor... shall be elevated no less than two feet above the highest adjacent grade.