Municipality · Virginia

Claremont

The ordinance has been retrieved, read and turned into structured rules.
10
Districts
307
Extracted rules
1,172
Standards
5
Chapters read

Zoning districts

10 districts, grouped by category.

General provisions

297 rules that bind every district rather than one — sign regulations, parking, floodplain and the rest of the code’s citywide chapters.

Sec. 3-14047 standards

All development and redevelopment exceeding 2,500 square feet shall be subject to applicable provisions... No more land shall be disturbed than is necessary... All land development shall minimize impervious cover...

Sec. 3-14055 standards

Any development or redevelopment exceeding 2,500 square feet of land disturbance in the CBPA shall be accomplished through a plan of development process prior to any clearing or grading of the site or the issuance of any building permit, unless the administrator determines that due to the scope and nature of the proposed development certain of the required information is unnecessary.

Sec. 3-1405.A5 standards

Any development or redevelopment exceeding 2,500 square feet of land disturbance in the CBPA shall be accomplished through a plan of development process prior to any clearing or grading...

Sec. 3-1405.A1 standards

Any development or redevelopment exceeding 2,500 square feet of land disturbance in the CBPA shall be accomplished through a plan of development process prior to any clearing or grading of the site or the issuance of any building permit

Sec. 3-1405.B.1.d1 standards

Slopes greater than 15 percent;

Sec. 3-1405.B.1.e1 standards

A 100-foot buffer area located adjacent to and landward of the components listed in subsections [a.] through [d.] above, and along both sides of any water bodies with perennial flow;

Sec. 3-1405.C.2.c1 standards

replacement of existing trees and other vegetation will be achieved at a ratio of two planted trees to one removed.

Sec. 3-1405.C.2.c1 standards

Replacement trees shall be a minimum two and one-half inches caliper measured six inches above the ground at the time of planting.

Sec. 3-1405.D1 standards

This submittal is not required for individual one- and two-family homes located on lots one acre or greater in size if the impervious cover is 16 percent or less of the total site area.

Sec. 3-1405.F3 standards

A minor water quality impact assessment pertains only to land disturbance, development or redevelopment activity within a CBPA which causes no more than 5,000 square feet of land disturbance and/or which proposes to encroach into the landward 50 feet of the 100-foot buffer area...

Sec. 3-1405.F.42 standards

A water quality impact assessment must demonstrate through acceptable calculations that the remaining buffer area and necessary best management practices will result in removal of no less than 75 percent of sediments and 40 percent of nutrients from post-development stormwater runoff.

Sec. 3-1405.F.61 standards

A minor water quality impact assessment pertains only to land disturbance, development or redevelopment activity within a CBPA which causes no more than 5,000 square feet of land disturbance

Sec. 3-1406.D1 standards

All required stormwater management facilities or other specifications shall be installed and approved within 18 months of project commencement.

Sec. 3-1408.B.11 standards

There will be no net increase in nonpoint source pollutant load;

Sec. 3-15021 standards

These provisions shall apply to all privately and publicly owned lands within the jurisdiction of Surry County, Virginia and identified as areas of special flood hazard according to the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that is provided to the County of Surry, Virginia by FEMA.

Sec. 3-15021 standards

These provisions shall apply to all privately and publicly owned lands within the jurisdiction of Surry County, Virginia and identified as areas of special flood hazard according to the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that is provided to the County of Surry, Virginia by FEMA.

Sec. 3-1502, 3-1519, 3-152017 standards

These provisions shall apply to all privately and publicly owned lands within the jurisdiction of Surry County, Virginia and identified as areas of special flood hazard according to the flood insurance rate map (FIRM) that is provided to the County of Surry, Virginia by FEMA.

Sec. 3-151623 standards

The various special flood hazard districts shall include the SFHAs. The basis for the delineation of these districts shall be the FIS and the FIRM for Surry County, Virginia prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency... dated April 6, 2022

Sec. 3-1516(A)11 standards

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...

Sec. 3-1516(A)12 standards

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.

Source documents

The chapters of the adopted code that were retrieved, read and extracted from. Everything above traces back to one of these.