Henrico County Unincorporated, Virginia · General provision
Sec. 24-8501
Extracted standards
1 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Maximum allowable increase in water surface elevation in floodway1 ft
without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation of the flood by more than one foot
From the ordinance
Floodway. The channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas shown on the most recent Flood Insurance Study or Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Map that must be reserved from encroachment in order to discharge a base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation of the flood by more than one foot.