21.64.130
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Area within the riparian corridor, within 200 feet of the river bank, and within the floodway and floodway fringe designations along the Carmel River, as shown on FEMA maps.
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- First habitable floor at least 1 foot above 100-year flood level1 ft
The first habitable floor of any structures shall be located at least one foot above the one hundred (100) year flood level.
- Development in floodway fringe must minimize flood infiltration
Development in the floodway fringe is permitted subject to provisions that all structures including related utilities shall be so located and constructed so as to minimize or eliminate infiltration of flood waters into the systems and discharges from the systems flood waters.
- Development prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. within 200 feet of riverbank200 ft
Development within two hundred (200) feet of the riverbanks, or in the floodway or riparian corridor, as defined herein, is prohibited except as provided.
- Dredging or removal of natural materials prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Any dredging of, or removal of, natural materials from the river channel or banks is prohibited.
- Construction or alteration of levees prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Construction or alteration of levees, or the placement of fill material in the floodway or riparian corridor is prohibited.
- Alteration of living riparian vegetation prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Alteration of the living riparian vegetation by removal, thinning, or other means is prohibited.
- Alteration of natural river course prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Any alteration of the natural course of the river or its banks, except as a part of a flood control project planned or approved by the Monterey County Water Resources Agency, is prohibited.
- Use Permit required for development within 200 feet
All development within two hundred (200) feet of the river banks will require a Use Permit.
From the ordinance
Development within two hundred (200) feet of the riverbanks, or in the floodway or riparian corridor, as defined herein, is prohibited except as provided. All development within two hundred (200) feet of the river banks will require a Use Permit.