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(2) Require that uses vulnerable to floods,' including public facilities which serve such uses,
be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(3) Control, in the sense of providing authoritative guidance, the alteration of natural
flood plains, their protective barriers and stream channels;
(4) Prevent the construction of barriers which will divert flood waters and subject other
lands to greater fl ood hazards;
(5) Control, in the sense of authoritative guidance, development which would cause greater
erosion or potential flood damage such as grading, dredging and excavation.
SECTION D. OBJECTIVES
The objectives of this ordinance are:
(1) To protect human life and property exposed to the hazards of flooding;
(2) To ensure that potential property owners are notified if property is in a special flood
hazard area;
(3) To minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally
undertaken at the expense of the general public;
(4) To minimize prolonged business interruptions;
(5) To minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric,
telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in special flood hazard areas;
(6) To minimize expenditure of future public money for costly flood control projects.
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS
Unless specifically defined below, works or phases used in this ordinance shall be inter-
preted to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this ordinance
its most reasonable application.
Appeal ---Means a request for a review of the City Building Officials interpretation of any
provision of this ordinance or a request for a variance.
Area of Shallow Flooding ---Means a designated AO Zone on a community's Flood Insurance
Rate Map (FIRM) with base flood depths from one to three feet. This condition occurs where
a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding in unpredictabel and
indeterminate, and where velocity flow may be evident.
Area of Special Flood Hazard ---is the land in the flood plain within a community subject
to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year.
Base Flood ---means the flood having a one percent chance of being equalled or exceeded
in any given year.
Development ---means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, includ-
in but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading,
paving, excavation or drilling operations.
Existing Mobile Home Park or Mobile Home Subdivision ---means a parcel (or contiguous parcels)
of land divided into two or more mobile home lots for rent or sale for which the construction
of facilities for servicing the lot on which the mobile home is to be affixed (including, at
a minimum, the installation of utilities, either final site grading or the pouring of concrete
pads, and the construction of streets) is completed before the effective date of this ordin-
ance.
Expansion To An Existing Mobile Home Park or Mobile Home Subdivision ---means the pre-
paration of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which
the mobile homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilties, either final site
grading or pouring of concrete pads, or the construction of streets).
Flood or F looding---means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete
inundation of normally dry land areas from:
(1) the overflow of inland or tidal waters.
(2) The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.
Flood Hazard Boundary Map(F HBM)- --means an official map of a community, issued by
the Federal Insurance Administration, where the areas within the boundaries of special
flood hazards have been designated as Zone A.
Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) ---means an official map of a community, on which the
Federal Insurance Administration has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards
and the risk premium zones applicable to the community.