The purpose of this Chapter is to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to:
A. Protect human life and health;
B. Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects;
C. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
D. Minimize prolonged business interruptions;
E. Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in areas of special flood hazard;
F. Help to maintain a stable tax base by providing for the second use and development of areas of special flood hazard so as to minimize future flood blight areas;
G. Ensure potential buyers of property within an area of special flood hazard are notified;
H. Ensure those who occupy the areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions;
I. Restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or flood heights or velocities;
J. Require uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
K. Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;
L. Control filling, grading, dredging, and other development which may increase flood damage; and
M. Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters, or which may increase flood hazards in other areas.
('65 Code, § 9-150) (Ord. 2021- 004 § 1 (part))