Vinton, Virginia · General provision

Sec. 4-30(a)(1) and Sec. 4-32(b)

Dimensional standards

Servicing

Applies near
Floodway

Uses

Permitted by right5

  • Agricultural uses (general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, wild crop harvesting)
  • Public and private recreational uses (parks, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat launching and swimming areas, horseback riding and hiking trails, wildlife and nature preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, trap and skeet game ranges, hunting and fishing areas)
  • Accessory residential uses (yard areas, gardens, play areas, pervious loading areas)
  • Accessory industrial and commercial uses (yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport landing strips)
  • Manufactured homes in existing manufactured home parks

Conditional / special use6

Extracted standards

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

Other

  • No encroachment without analysis

    Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.

  • Manufactured homes shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement.

From the ordinance

Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.
Sec. 4-30(a)(1) and Sec. 4-32(b)