1410.04 METHODS OF REDUCING FLOOD LOSS.
   In order to accomplish its purposes, these regulations include methods and provisions for:
   (a)   Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to health, safety and property due to water hazard, or which result in damaging increases in flood heights or velocities;
   (b)   Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
   (c)   Controlling the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;
   (d)   Controlling filling, grading, dredging, excavating, and other development which may increase flood damage; and
   (e)   Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazard in other areas.
(Ord. 2005-05. Passed 12-12-05.)