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'" contained in the Department of Conservation and Resources Division of Natural Heritage publication entitled Invasive Plant Species of Virginia. Plan of development means the process for site plan or subdivision plat review to ensure compliance with Code of Virginia, 910.1-2109 and this chapter, prior to any clearing or grading of a site or the issuance of a building permit. Public road means a publicly owned road designed and constructed in accordance with water quality protection criteria at least as stringent as requirements applicable to the state department of transportation, including regulations promulgated pursuant to Code of Virginia, 910.1-560 et seq. (the Erosion and Sediment Control Law) and Code of Virginia, 910.1-603.1 et seq. (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. 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 as provided for in Sec. 9 .1-4(b )(2). Resource protection area or RP A 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 as provided for in Sec. 9.1-4(b)(I). State waters means all waters, on the surface or underground, wholly or partially within or bordering the Commonwealth or within its jurisdictions, as defined in Section 10.1-560 of the Code of Virginia. 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 RMA 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 Code of Virginia, 928.2-1300. Water body with perennialjlow means a body of water that flows in a natural or manmade channel year-round during a year of normal precipitation. This includes, but is