(A) Designation of the Flood Plain Administrator. The Village Administrator, in his or her capacity as the Village Zoning Inspector, is hereby appointed to administer and implement these regulations and is referred to herein as the Flood Plain Administrator. As noted in § 153.033(A)(4), the Flood Plain Administrator may employ engineers or appropriate consultants at the expense of the applicant to assist in the review and implementation of these regulations.
(B) Duties and responsibilities of the Flood Plain Administrator. The duties and responsibilities of the Flood Plain Administrator shall include, but are not limited to:
(1) Evaluate applications for permits to develop in special flood hazard areas;
(2) Interpret flood plain boundaries and provide flood hazard and flood protection elevation information;
(3) Issue permits to develop in special flood hazard areas when the provisions of these regulations have been met, or refuse to issue the same in the event of noncompliance;
(4) Inspect buildings and lands to determine whether any violations of these regulations have been committed;
(5) Make and permanently keep all records for public inspection necessary for the administration of these regulations including flood insurance rate maps, letters of map amendment and revision, records of issuance and denial of permits to develop in special flood hazard areas, determinations of whether development is in or out of special flood hazard areas for the purpose of issuing flood plain development permits, elevation certificates, variances and records of enforcement actions taken for violations of these regulations the provisions of these regulations;
(6) Enforce the provisions of these regulations;
(7) Provide information, testimony or other evidence as needed during variance hearings;
(8) Coordinate map maintenance activities and FEMA follow-up; and
(9) Conduct substantial damage determinations to determine whether existing structures, damaged from any source and in special flood hazard areas identified by FEMA, must meet the development standards of these regulations.
(C) Flood plain development permits. It shall be unlawful for any person to begin construction or other development activity including, but not limited to, filling; grading; construction; alteration, remodeling or expanding any structure; or alteration of any watercourse wholly within, partially within or in contact with any identified special flood hazard area, as established in § 153.030(F), until a flood plain development permit is obtained from the Flood Plain Administrator. Such flood plain development permit shall show that the proposed development activity is in conformity with the provisions of these regulations. No such permit shall be issued by the Flood Plain Administrator until the requirements of these regulations have been met.
(D) Application required.
(1) An application for a flood plain development permit shall be required for all development activities located wholly within, partially within, or in contact with an identified special flood hazard area. Such application shall be made by the owner of the property or his or her authorized agent, herein referred to as the applicant, prior to the actual commencement of such construction on a form furnished for that purpose. Where it is unclear whether a development site is in a special flood hazard area, the Flood Plain Administrator may require an application for a flood plain development permit to determine the development’s location.
(2) Such applications shall include, but not be limited to:
(a) Site plans drawn to scale showing the nature, location, dimensions and topography of the area in question; the location of existing or proposed structures, fill, storage of materials, drainage facilities, and the location of the foregoing;
(b) Elevation of the existing, natural ground where structures are proposed;
(c) Elevation of the lowest floor, including the lowest floor, including basement, of all proposed structures;
(d) Such other material and information as may be requested by the Flood Plain Administrator to determine conformance with, and provide enforcement of these regulations;
(e) Technical analyses conducted by the appropriate design professional registered in the state and submitted with an application for a flood plain development permit when applicable:
1. Flood-proofing certification for nonresidential flood-proofed structure as required in § 153.036(F);
(b) Certification that fully enclosed areas below the lowest floor of a structure not meeting the design requirements of § 153.036(C) are designed to automatically equalize hydrostatic flood forces;
(c) Description of any watercourse alteration or relocation that the flood carrying capacity of the watercourse will not be diminished, and maintenance assurances as required in § 153.037(C);
(d) A hydrologic and hydraulic analysis demonstrating that the cumulative effect of proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood by more than one foot in special flood hazard areas where the Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided base flood elevations but no floodway as required by § 153.037(B);
(e) A hydrologic and hydraulic engineering analysis showing impact of any development on flood heights in an identified floodway as required by § 153.037(A); and
(f) Generation of base flood elevation(s) for subdivision and large scale developments as required by § 153.036(F).
(6) Flood plain development permit application fee. A fee for the flood plain development permit application is listed in § 153.439(E) of the Village Zoning Code.
(Ord. 30-1974, § 401.3, passed 7-15-1974; Ord. 14-1992, passed 4-6-1992; Ord. 25-2003, passed 6-2-2003)