Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Flood Insurance Rate Map
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all privately- and publicly-owned lands within the City identified as floodprone, as shown on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, including Floodway, Special FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. (AE), Approximated FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. (A/A99), and Shallow Flooding (AO/AH) zones.
Uses
Prohibited4
- Solid waste, trash hauling, landfills, dumps, junkyards, storage tanks, hazardous materials storage, outdoor storage of vehicles and/or materials
- The filling of jurisdictional wetlands
- Damming or relocation of any watercourse that will result in any downstream increase in flood levels during the base flood
- The construction or storage of any object subject to flotation or movement during flooding
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Encroachments prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. unless no flood level increase
Encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements and other developments are prohibited unless certification such as hydrologic and hydraulic analyses is provided demonstrating that encroachments shall not result in any increase in flood levels.
- FloodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. development permit required
A floodplain development permit is required for all development in the -FO district pursuant to the requirements of Sec. 98-7.12.
- Floodproofing certification by engineer/architect
A qualified engineer or architect shall certify that the floodproofing methods are adequate to withstand the flood depths, pressures, velocities, impact, and uplift forces.
- Manufactured homeManufactured homeA dwelling built in a factory to a federal standard and transported to the site. lowest floor elevation36 in
The manufactured home chassis is supported by reinforced piers or other foundation elements of at least an equivalent strength, of no less than 36 inches in height above the grade.
- Maximum consecutive days for recreational vehicle180 days
No recreational vehicles may be placed on sites except for non-residential use and then shall either be on the site for fewer than 180 consecutive days, or be fully licensed and ready for highway use.
- Minimum foundation vent net area per square foot1 sqin/sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The total net area of all openings must be at least one square inch for each square foot of enclosed area subject to flooding.
- Minimum foundation vent openings2 count
Foundation vents shall have a minimum of two openings having a total net area of not less than one square inch for every square foot of enclosed area subject to flooding.
- Lowest floor elevation above design flood elevation1 ft
All new construction and substantial improvement of structures shall have the lowest floor, including basement, elevated at least one foot above the design flood elevation.
From the ordinance
No land shall be developed and no structure shall be located, relocated, constructed, reconstructed, enlarged or structurally altered in the -FO district except in full compliance with the terms and provisions of this section.
Use details
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"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, athletic playing fields, 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)."
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