(A) No permit for development shall be granted for new construction, substantial improvements and other development(s) including the placement of manufactured homes within all numbered and unnumbered A Zones (including AE, AO and AH Zones) unless the conditions of this section are satisfied.
(B) All areas identified as unnumbered A Zones on the FIRM are subject to inundation of the base flood; however, the water surface elevation was not provided. The unnumbered A Zones shall be subject to all development provisions of § 153.41 of this chapter. If Flood Insurance Study data is not available, the community shall utilize any base flood elevation or floodway data currently available from federal, state or other sources.
(C) Until a floodway has been designated, no development or substantial improvement may be permitted within special flood hazard areas unless the applicant has demonstrated that the proposed development or substantial improvement, when combined with all other existing and reasonably anticipated developments or substantial improvements, will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any location as shown on the Flood Insurance Study.
(D) New construction, subdivision proposal’s substantial improvements, prefabricated buildings, placement of manufactured homes and other developments shall require:
(1) Design or anchorage to prevent flotation, collapse or lateral movement of the structure resulting from hydrodynamic and hydrostatic loads, including the effects of buoyancy;
(2) New or replacement water supply systems and/or sanitary sewage systems be designed to minimize or eliminate infiltration of floods waters into the systems and discharges from the systems into flood waters and on-site waste disposal systems be located so as to avoid impairment or contamination;
(3) Construction with materials resistant to flood damage, utilizing methods and practices that minimize flood damages, and with electrical, heating, ventilation, plumbing and air conditioning equipment and other service facilities that are designed and/or located so as to prevent water from entering or accumulating within the components during conditions of flooding; and
(4) All utility and sanitary facilities be elevated or flood proofed up to the regulatory flood protection elevation.
(E) (1) The storage or process of materials that are in time of flooding buoyant, flammable, explosive or could be injurious to human, animal or plant life is prohibited.
(2) Storage of other material or equipment may be allowed if not subject to major damage by floods and firmly anchored to prevent flotation or if readily removable from the area within the time available after flood warning.
(F) Subdivision proposals and other proposed new development, including manufactured home parks or subdivisions, be required to assure that:
(1) All such proposals are consistent with the need to minimize flood damage;
(2) All public utilities and facilities, such as sewer, gas, electrical and water systems are located, elevated and constructed to minimize or eliminate flood damage;
(3) Adequate drainage is provided so as to reduce exposure to flood hazards; and
(4) Proposals for development (including proposals for manufactured homes parks and subdivisions) of five acres or 50 lots, whichever is lesser, include within such proposals the base flood elevation.
(1976 Code, § 14-105) (Ord. 1421, passed 4-18-2011)