It is the purpose of this chapter to promote public health, safety, and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions within flood-prone areas by provisions designed to:
(A) Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards or that result in damaging increases in erosion, flood heights, or velocities;
(B) Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities that serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(C) Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which are involved in the accommodation of floodwaters;
(D) Control filling, grading, dredging, and all other development that may increase erosion or flood damage; and
(E) Prevent or regulate the conduction of flood barriers that will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other lands.
(2013 Code, Ch. 21)