Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Applies to all lands within the Resource Protection Area (RPA) as defined in Sec. 3-1403, including the 100-foot buffer adjacent to water bodies with perennial flow, tidal wetlands, and slopes greater than 15%.
Uses
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. encroachment into landward buffer50 ft
Agricultural activities may encroach into the landward 50 feet of the 100-foot wide buffer area when at least one agricultural best management practice which, in the opinion of the local soil and water conservation district board, addresses the more predominant water quality issue on the adjacent land - erosion control or nutrient management - is being implemented on the adjacent land.
- AgriculturalAgricultureRaising crops or livestock, generally including the structures that serve them. encroachment with multiple BMPs75 ft
Agricultural activities may encroach within the landward 75 feet of the 100-foot wide buffer area when agricultural best management practices which address erosion control, nutrient management, and pest chemical control, are being implemented on the adjacent land.
- RPA buffer width100 ft
A 100-foot wide buffer area of vegetation that is effective in retarding runoff, preventing erosion, and filtering nonpoint source pollution from runoff shall be retained if present and established where it does not exist.
- Maximum encroachment into seaward buffer50 ft
The encroachment may not extend into the seaward 50 feet of the buffer area.
- Nutrient reduction40 pct
The 100-foot RPA buffer shall be deemed to achieve a 75 percent reduction of sediments and a 40 percent reduction of nutrients.
- Sediment reduction75 pct
The 100-foot RPA buffer shall be deemed to achieve a 75 percent reduction of sediments and a 40 percent reduction of nutrients.
From the ordinance
A 100-foot wide buffer area of vegetation that is effective in retarding runoff, preventing erosion, and filtering nonpoint source pollution from runoff shall be retained if present and established where it does not exist.