Environmental Rules in Greenville, NC (2026)
4 verified environmental rules for Greenville, North Carolina, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Stormwater Management
Greenville runs its stormwater program as a self-supporting utility billed on impervious surface, not general taxes. Every developed parcel, residential or commercial, is charged by the Equivalent Rate Unit, defined as each 2,000 square feet of impervious surface, and small properties under 200 square feet of impervious coverage pay nothing. Detached single-family homes are capped at four rate units.
Greenville Stormwater Utility Fee and Rules
Some RestrictionsGreenville City Code §§ 8-3-1, 8-3-5(B), 8-3-6(A)(1)
This chapter establishes a stormwater management utility as an identified fiscal and accounting fund for the purpose of addressing the stormwater management needs of the city from a comprehensive approach including stormwater management programs designed to protect water quality by controlling the level of pollutants in, and the quantity and flow of, stormwater and structural and natural stormw...
Erosion Control
Disturbing more than five thousand square feet, or more than one acre with a required control plan, anywhere in Greenville or its extraterritorial jurisdiction requires a land-disturbing permit and an approved erosion and sedimentation control plan, and any disturbance at all inside a special flood hazard area needs one regardless of size.
Greenville Erosion & Sediment Control Permit
Some RestrictionsGreenville City Code § 9-8-5(A)
(A) Plan and permit required. No person shall initiate any land-disturbing activity which uncovers more than one acre without having an erosion control plan and land-disturbing permit approved by the city. Additionally, no person shall initiate any land-disturbing activity greater than 5,000 square feet without having a land-disturbing permit approved by the city. Furthermore, no person shall...
Flood Zones
Any new construction, substantial improvement or fill placed inside a Greenville special flood hazard area must be anchored against flotation, built with flood-resistant materials and methods, and keep waste-disposal and chemical-storage uses out entirely, under the flood hazard reduction standards in City Code Chapter 9-6.
Greenville Floodplain Development Standards
Some RestrictionsGreenville City Code § 9-6-5(A)
(A) General standards. In all special flood hazard areas the following provisions are required: (1) All new construction and substantial improvement shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement of the structure; (2) All new construction and substantial improvements shall be constructed with materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage; (3) All new co...
Flood Elevation Requirements
Greenville's flood damage prevention ordinance sets a regulatory flood protection elevation of the FEMA base flood elevation plus two feet of freeboard for every structure in a mapped special flood hazard area, or two feet above the highest adjacent grade where FEMA hasn't published a BFE for the site.
Greenville Base Flood Elevation Freeboard
Some RestrictionsGreenville City Code § 9-6-2
Regulatory flood protection elevation. The elevation to which all structures and other development located within the special flood hazard areas must be elevated or floodproofed, if nonresidential. (1) In “Special Flood Hazard Areas” where base flood elevations (BFEs) have been determined, this elevation shall be at least the BFE plus two (2) feet for all structures and other development. (2)...
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