Description: The Airport Overlay depicts the area regulated and restrict the use of property and the height of structures and objects of natural growth, in the vicinity of the Roanoke Regional Airport by creating certain airport overlay zones and to define the boundaries thereof.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-72. - AO AIRPORT OVERLAY DISTRICT
Description: The purpose of the Clearbrook village overlay district is to promote future development that is consistent with the current character of Clearbrook, and with the comprehensive plan future land use map and policies for this area. Future development in this district should respect the character and historical context of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Clearbrook School, and other social and cultural resources in Clearbrook area.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-58. - CVOD CLEARBROOK VILLAGE OVERLAY DISTRICT
Description: The Floodplain Overlay is intended to prevent hazards due to flooding, including but not limited to loss of life, property, and tax base.(A) The purpose of these floodplain provisions is to prevent the following hazards:1. The loss of life and property;2. The creation of health and safety hazards;3. The disruption of commerce and governmental services;4. The extraordinary and unnecessary expenditure of public funds for flood protection and relief; and,5. The impairment of the tax base.(B) These provisions are designed to accomplish the above purposes by:1. Regulating uses, activities, and development which, acting alone or in combination with other existing or future uses, activities, and development, will cause unacceptable increases in flood heights, velocities, and frequencies;2. Restricting or prohibiting certain uses, activities, and development from locating within areas subject to flooding;3. 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;4. Protecting individuals from buying lands and structures which are unsuited for intended purposes because of flood hazards.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-74. - FO FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY DISTRICT.
Description: The Future Land Use feature is a community's visual guide to future planning. The categorization in the feature should bring together most if not all of the elements of the comprehensive plan such as natural resources, economic development, housing and transportation. Future Land Use is maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly.Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.
Description: The provisions of the R-MH Manufactured Housing Overlay District are designed to increase opportunities for affordable housing alternatives, to recognize modern advances in manufactured housing technology, and to promote cost effective site development. This overlay district provides locations where manufactured housing communities may harmoniously develop in residential areas in which a mix of other affordable housing types — multi-family apartments, duplexes, townhouses, and compact detached housing — may also develop. Furthermore, this district provides for institutional support services, such as schools, churches, parks, and community clubs within residential neighborhoods, yet protects against the intrusion of incompatible commercial and industrial uses.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-48. - R-MH MANUFACTURED HOUSING OVERLAY DISTRICT.
Description: The intent of this feature is to establish a conservation overlay district along the Roanoke River. The purpose is to recognize and designate the river corridor as a cultural and recreational resource, critical floodway, water source and important natural habitat worthy of coordinated conservation efforts and to take those measures necessary to protect this resource. This is consistent with the 1985 community plan as amended in December 1990 to incorporate the analysis, conclusions and recommendations of the Roanoke River Corridor Study dated August 1990.It is the premise of these provisions that certain specific land uses pose a danger to this water resource and should be avoided. In addition, through careful planning and design, clearing and grading activities or similar activities that disturb or destroy site vegetation can be minimized, with the goal that the natural vegetation, features and qualities of sites and properties along the Roanoke River corridor will be retained to the maximum extent possible. Finally, through implementation of additional erosion and sediment control practices, the maintenance and installation of buffer strips of natural vegetation, and use of best management practices, the impacts of excessive soil loss and adverse effects of nonpoint source pollutants on the water quality of the Roanoke River can be minimized.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-75. - RRCO ROANOKE RIVER CONSERVATION AND OVERLAY DISTRICT.
Description: Study Areas are the product long range planning and is the denotation of the limits of the Community plan. These plans are subsets of the Planning Area Boundaries
Copyright Text: Study Areas are the product long range planning and is the denotation of the limits of the Community plan. These plans are subsets of the Planning Area Boundaries
Description: The Census Bureau's urban-rural classification is fundamentally a delineation of geographical areas, identifying both individual urban areas and the rural areas of the nation. The Census Bureau's urban areas represent densely developed territory, and encompass residential, commercial, and other non-residential urban land uses. For the 2010 Census, an urban area will comprise a densely settled core of census tracts and/or census blocks that meet minimum population density requirements, along with adjacent territory containing non-residential urban land uses as well as territory with low population density included to link outlying densely settled territory with the densely settled core. To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to criteria must encompass at least 2,500 people, at least 1,500 of which reside outside institutional group quarters.
Description: Planning Area Boundaries are design to facilitate long range planning at the community level. Roanoke County’s community planning areas were established in the mid-1980s as part of the 1985 Comprehensive Plan. Planning area boundaries were based upon a combination of tax map limits, elementary school districts, and community characteristics. Most of the names for the planning areas are loosely based on community elementary schools and fire and rescue stations. The planning area boundaries were updated in 2011 to correspond with recent planning area studies.Planning Area Boundaries are maintained within the Administration Feature and is dissolved out weekly.Administration is a polygon feature consisting of the smallest statistical areas bounded by visible features such as roads, streams, railroad tracks, and mountain ridges, as well as by nonvisible boundaries such as jurisdictional limits, school district, public safety boundaries, voting precincts, and census blocks. This methodology allows for single stream editing to move coincidental boundaries across many aggregate datasets simultaneously. Administration is maintained though an ArcGIS topology class in conjunction with County Parcels and Zoning. The topology prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.
Description: The purpose of the Well-Head Protection (WHP) Overlay District is to prevent contamination of public wells, public wellfields, and other groundwater resources that are used as sources of public drinking water. This District will promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the community by protecting the groundwater supply within the County.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-76. - WHP WELL-HEAD PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICT.
Description: The purpose of the Well-Head Protection (WHP) Overlay District is to prevent contamination of public wells, public wellfields, and other groundwater resources that are used as sources of public drinking water. This District will promote the health, safety, and general welfare of the community by protecting the groundwater supply within the County.See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-76. - WHP WELL-HEAD PROTECTION OVERLAY DISTRICT.
Description: Municipal or local government laws that dictate how real property can and cannot be used in certain areas. Zoning laws limit commercial use of land in order to prevent oil, manufacturing or other types of businesses from building in residential neighborhoods. However, these laws can be modified or suspended if construction of the property will serve to help the community advance economically.All areas of land in Roanoke County have a zoning use restriction. This zoning polygon feature was created separately from our Parcel feature because some parcels have more than one zoning designation. The outside boundary of our zoning features match the outside boundary of our Parcel feature. This feature designates one of the the zoning areas as "Primary" to assign a zoning feature to our Assess Pro Real Estate system.It should also be noted that there are some areas of land inside the boundaries of Roanoke County that are actually located and taxed in adjacent jurisdictions. These areas have a psuedo parcelid and are included in the zoning feature. This polygon feature is part of a Editing topology along with or parcel feature and our Administration feature. This prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.
Description: Municipal or local government laws that dictate how real property can and cannot be used in certain areas. Zoning laws limit commercial use of land in order to prevent oil, manufacturing or other types of businesses from building in residential neighborhoods. However, these laws can be modified or suspended if construction of the property will serve to help the community advance economically.All areas of land in Roanoke County have a zoning use restriction. This zoning polygon feature was created separately from our Parcel feature because some parcels have more than one zoning designation. The outside boundary of our zoning features match the outside boundary of our Parcel feature. This feature designates one of the the zoning areas as "Primary" to assign a zoning feature to our Assess Pro Real Estate system.It should also be noted that there are some areas of land inside the boundaries of Roanoke County that are actually located and taxed in adjacent jurisdictions. These areas have a psuedo parcelid and are included in the zoning feature. This polygon feature is part of a Editing topology along with or parcel feature and our Administration feature. This prevents self-intersection and gaps, while ensuring complete coverage amongst the participating features.