Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- James River
- Applies within
- 100 ft
- Geographic extent
- Applies to lands within the James River Watershed, including resource protection areas with a 100-foot buffer adjacent to water bodies with perennial flow.
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Resource management area
The RMA shall be provided contiguous to the entire inland boundary of the RPA and shall encompass a land area large enough to provide significant water quality protection.
- Resource protection area components
The resource protection area shall include: tidal wetlands, nontidal wetlands connected by surface flow, tidal shores, and a buffer area not less than 100 feet in width.
Floodplain
The 100-year floodplain is considered a RMA feature.
Other
- RPA buffer width100 ft
A buffer area not less than 100 feet in width located adjacent to and landward of the components listed in subsections A.1. through 4. above, and along both sides of any water body with perennial flow.
- Slope regulation15 pct
Slopes in excess of 15 percent are considered a RMA feature.
From the ordinance
A buffer area not less than 100 feet in width located adjacent to and landward of the components listed in subsections A.1. through 4. above, and along both sides of any water body with perennial flow.