(A) The purpose of this subchapter is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas.
(B) Objectives.
(1) To protect human life and health;
(2) To minimize expenditure of public money and costly flood control projects;
(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 damage public facilities and utilities;
(5) To ensure that those who occupy the areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions; and
(6) To manage the alteration of special flood hazard areas and stream channels to maintain their natural and beneficial functions.
(C) Methods of reducing flood losses. In order to accomplish these objectives, this subchapter includes methods and provisions for:
(1) Restricting or prohibiting uses which area dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion control hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
(2) Requiring that uses vulnerable to flood, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(3) Controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;
(4) Controlling filling, grading, dredging and other development which may increase flood damage; and
(5) Preventing or regulating to construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or may increase flood hazards in other areas.
(Ord. 2021-08-02, passed 10-12-2021)