Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- flood-prone areas
- Geographic extent
- All lands within the jurisdiction of the Town of Elkton identified as flood-prone
Uses
Permitted by right4
- Agricultural uses, such as general farming, pasture, grazing, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod farming, and wild-crop harvesting
- Public and private recreational uses and activities, such as parks, day camps, picnic grounds, golf courses, boat launching and swimming areas, hiking, and horseback riding trails, wildlife and nature preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, trap and skeet game ranges, and hunting and fishing areas
- Accessory residential uses, such as yard areas, gardens, play areas, and pervious loading areas
- Accessory industrial and commercial uses, such as yard areas, pervious parking and loading areas, airport landing strips, etc.
Conditional / special use6
- Structures, except for mobile homes, accessory to the uses and activities in § 110-615M(3)
- Utilities and public facilities and improvements, such as railroads, streets, bridges, transmission lines, pipelines, water and sewage treatment plants, and other similar or related uses
- Water-related uses and activities, such as marinas, docks, wharves, piers, etc.
- Extraction of sand, gravel, and other materials (where no increase in the level of flooding or velocity is caused thereby)
- Temporary uses, such as circuses, carnivals, and similar activities
- Telecommunications facilities
Prohibited2
- Encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements or other development (unless certification provided)
- Placement of manufactured homes, except in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision
Extracted standards
3 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Compliance with floodplainFloodplainLand expected to flood at a stated frequency, where building carries extra conditions. regulations
No land shall hereafter be developed and no structure shall be located, relocated, constructed, reconstructed, enlarged, or structurally altered except in full compliance with the terms and provisions of this section.
- Floodproofing required
Requiring all those uses, activities, and developments that do occur in flood-prone areas to be protected and/or floodproofed against flooding and flood damage.
- Supersedes other ordinances
This section shall supersede the provisions of any other ordinance or regulation with regard to development in flood-prone areas. However, the provisions of any underlying ordinance shall remain in full force and effect to the extent that those provisions are more restrictive.
From the ordinance
These provisions shall apply to all lands within the jurisdiction of the Town of Elkton and identified as being flood-prone as stipulated in this section.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"conditional_uses": [
"Storage of materials and equipment, provided that they are not buoyant, flammable or explosive and are not subject to major damage by flooding, or provided that such material and equipment is firmly anchored to prevent flotation or movement, and/or can be readily removed from the area within the time available after flood warning",
"Other similar uses and activities, provided that they cause no increase in flood heights and/or velocities"
]
}
}