Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Chesapeake Bay
- Geographic extent
- All lands located within Chesapeake Bay Preservation Areas (CBPA), both resource management areas and resource protection areas as depicted on the official CBPA maps for the Town of Vienna.
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Buffer vegetation requirements
Indigenous vegetation shall be preserved to the maximum extent practicable, consistent with the use and development proposed.
- Land disturbance threshold for site plan review2,500 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
- Non-point source pollution reduction for redevelopment 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. or more20 pct
achieve a twenty (20) percent reduction in non-point source pollution for redevelopment one (1) acre or greater
- Non-point source pollution reduction for redevelopment under 1 acreacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.10 pct
achieve a ten (10) percent reduction in non-point source pollution for redevelopment under one (1) acre
- Resource Protection Area buffer width100 ft
a buffer area extending at least 100 feet adjacent to the edge of a water body with perennial flow shall be retained
- Inner buffer width adjacent to water50 ft
the fifty (50) foot portion of the buffer area that is directly adjacent to the water body with perennial flow
- Water quality impact assessment required
A water quality impact assessment (WQIA) is required to be submitted with all development and redevelopment site plans for property partially or totally located within an RPA and where there is land disturbing activity in excess of 2,500 square feet in the RMA.
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.