To promote the public health, safety and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards and to promote wise use of the floodplain. These regulations have been established with the following purposes intended:
A. To guide development within the floodplain areas inside the corporate limits of the city of Belgrade:
1. Recognizing the right and need of watercourses to periodically carry more than the normal flow of water;
2. Participating in coordinating efforts of federal, state and local management activities for floodplains; and
3. Maintain regulations and minimum standards, insofar as possible, that balance the greatest public good with the least private injury.
B. Specifically it is the purpose of these regulations to:
1. Restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety or property in times of flood, or cause increased flood heights or velocities;
2. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including public facilities which serve such uses, be provided with flood protection at the time of initial construction;
3. Identify lands unsuitable for certain development purposes because of flood hazards;
4. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
5. Support the provisions of 36.15.204(2)(g) administrative rules of Montana, which require disclosure to potential buyers of property within a floodplain and subject to the provisions of these regulations; and
6. Inform those who occupy floodplains that they are responsible for their actions. (Ord. 2011-5, 10-17-2011)