Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay
- Geographic extent
- Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas, including resource management areas and resource protection areas
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- ImperviousImpervious coverageThe share of a lot covered by anything water cannot soak through — roofs, drives, patios. cover restriction
All land development shall minimize impervious area consistent with the proposed use or development.
- Land disturbance threshold2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All development, including residential, which exceeds 2,500 square feet of land disturbance, shall be subject to site plan review as required in this ordinance's site plan control provisions.
- Pollution reduction
achieve a ten (10) percent reduction in non-point source pollution for redevelopment under one (1) acre, achieve a twenty (20) percent reduction in non-point source pollution for redevelopment one (1) acre or greater, and to prevent an increase in non-point source pollution from new development.
- Allowed uses in Resource Protection Areas
Land development shall be allowed only if it meets one or more of the following criteria: water dependent, redevelopment, use established prior to October 1, 1989, road or driveway, flood control or stormwater management facility.
- Resource Protection Area buffer100 ft
a buffer area extending at least 100 feet adjacent to the edge of a water body with perennial flow shall be retained, if present, or established wherever such buffer does not exist.
From the ordinance
The purpose of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas Overlay District is to protect, improve, and enhance the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and other state waters.