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Protection Agency pursuant to Section 404 of the federal Clean Water Act, in 33 C. F. R. 328.3b, dated November 13, 1986. "Noxious weeds" means weeds that are difficult to control effectively, such as Johnson Grass, Kudzu, and multiflora rose. "Plan of Development" means the process for site plan or subdivision plat review to ensure compliance with Section 10.1-2109 of the Code of Virginia and this Chapter, prior to any cleating or grading of a site or the issuance of a building permit. "Public Roads" means a publicly owned road designed and constructed in accordance with water quality protection criteria at least as stringent as reqmrements applicable to the Virginia Department of Transportation, including regulations promulgated pursuant to Section 10.1-560 et seq. of the Code of Virginia (the Erosion and Sediment Control Law) and Section 10.1-603.1 et. seq. of the Code of Virginia (the Virginia Stormwater Management Act). This definition includes those roads where the Virginia Department of Transportation exercises direct supervision over the design or construction activities, or both, and cases where secondary roads are constructed or maintained in accordance with the standards of the City of Portsmouth. "Redevelopment" means the process of developing land that is or has been previously developed. "Resource Management Area" or "RMA" means that component of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area that is not classified as the Resource Protection Area. An RMA includes land types that, if improperly used or developed, have the potential for causing significant water quality degradation or for diminishing the functional value of the Resource Protection Area. "Resource Protection Area" or "RPA" means that component of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Area comprised of lands adjacent to water bodies with perennial flow that have an intrinsic water quality value due to the ecological and biological processes they perform or that are sensitive to impacts which may result in significant degradation to the quality of state waters. "Substantial alteration" means expansion or modification of a building or development that would result in a disturbance of land exceeding an area of 2,500 square feet in the Resource Management Area, only. "Tidal shore" or "shore" means land contiguous to a tidal body of water between the mean low water level and the mean high water level. "Tidal wetlands" means vegetated and nonvegetated wetlands as defined in Section 28.2- 1300 of the Code of Virginia.