In order to accomplish its purposes, this chapter includes methods and provisions for:
.010 Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
.020 Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
.030 Controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;
.040 Controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other development which may increase flood damage; and
.050 Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas. (Ord. 4138 § 1 (part); June 3, 1980.)