(A) The flood-prone areas within the jurisdiction of Chimney Rock Village, North Carolina, and its extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJs), are subject to periodic inundation, which may result in loss of life and property, hazards to public health and safety, disruption of commerce and governmental services, damage to and disruption of public utilities, extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare.
(B) These losses and hazards are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains, which increase flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood-prone areas by uses that are vulnerable to floods, or hazardous to other properties, because they are inadequately elevated, floodproofed, or otherwise protected from flood damages.
(Ord. passed 10-16-2007; Am. Ord. passed 4-15-2008)