Pageland, SC Environmental Rules: Flood Zones (2026)

Section 30-90 of the Pageland Town Code, part of the subdivision regulations' Article II on plat requirements, requires any plat submitted to the zoning administrator and public utility director to delineate land subject to flooding. The section then sets a hard construction setback: no new construction may take place within 50 feet of a natural drainage way or any area so designated as a flood prone area by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Subsection (a) caps how much of an approvable lot can flood at all: a lot with more than one-quarter of its area subject to flooding cannot be approved for subdivision.

The only carve-out is subsection (b)'s conservation exception, which lets a lot created for conservation purposes, meaning land acquired by a recognized land trust, conservation group or similar entity to preserve the area, include any or all of the flood-subject land, and exempts that lot from the street-access and flood-area requirements that would otherwise apply, provided the plat carries a note stating the lot is created for conservation purposes. Section 30-9, earlier in the same chapter, backs this up at the broader planning stage: land subject to flooding or otherwise unsuited for development may not be platted for uses that would increase danger to health, life or property or aggravate the flood hazard, and must instead be reserved for uses that periodic inundation will not endanger.

Enforcement runs through the plat-approval process itself: the zoning administrator and planning commission can withhold preliminary or final approval, under Sections 30-40 and 30-45, for any plat that does not meet these flood-area standards.