In accordance with the provisions of Section 17958.5 of the Health and Safety Code, the city council finds that all of the floodplain standards set forth in this chapter which add to or are more restrictive than the standards set forth inSection 16R.02.010 of this code are required by local topographical conditions. In particular, the city council finds that the floodplain standards set forth in this chapter are applicable only to buildings, structures, manufactured homes and other development on property located within a special flood hazard area, that such property is situated at an elevation below the base flood level, that because such property is situated below the base flood level, it is subject to periodic inundation by flood waters, and that the flood standards set forth in this chapter are necessary in order to ensure that development is properly elevated, floodproofed and otherwise protected from flood damage, and in order to prevent such development from creating obstructions which cause or contribute to an increase in flood heights and velocities.
(Res. No. 124 96-97, Res. No. 139-07)