HomeMy WebLinkAbout0018_0003SECTION D. OWECTIVES
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;
(3) 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, words or phases used in this ordinance
shall be interpreted to give thein 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 inter-
pretation 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 unpredictable and Inde-
terminate, 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, including but not limited to buildings or other structures,
mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling
operations.
Existing Mobile Home Park or Mobile Rome 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 (in-
cluding, 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 ordinance.
Expansion To An Existing Mobile Home Park or Mobile Home Subdivision—
means the preparation 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 utilities, either final site
grading or pouring of concrete pads, or the construction of streets).
Flood Or Flooding --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.
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