For the purpose of this article, the following definitions are adopted:
(a) Development: Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to:
(1) Construction, reconstruction, or placement of a building or any addition to a building valued at more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00);
(2) Installing a manufactured home on a site, preparing a site for a manufactured home or installing a travel trailer on a site for more than one hundred eighty (180) days;
(3) Installing utilities, construction of roads, or similar projects;
(4) Construction or erection of levees, walls, fences, bridges or culverts;
(5) Drilling, mining, filling, dredging, grading, excavating, or other nonagricultural alterations of the ground surface;
(6) Storage of materials; or
(7) Any other activity that might change the direction, height, or velocity of flood or surface waters.
(8) The placement of mobile homes.
"Development" does not include maintenance of existing buildings and facilities such as reroofing; resurfacing roads; or gardening, plowing, and similar agricultural practices that do not involve filling, grading, or construction of levees.
(b) Flood Or Flooding: A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundating of normally dry land areas from the overflow of inland waters, or the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.
(c) Base Flood: A flood having a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The base flood is also known as the 100-year flood.
(d) Base Flood Elevation: The elevation in relation to mean sea level of the crest of the base flood.
(e) Structure: A walled and roofed building including a gas or liquid storage tank that is principally aboveground, as well as a mobile home and/or a prefabricated building.
(f) Substantial Improvement: Any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure: 1) made to an existing building that increases the floor area by more than twenty percent (20%) or 2) the cost of which equals or exceeds fifty percent (50%) of the market value of the structure, if the structure has been damaged, and is being restored, before the damage occurred.
(g) SFHA Or Special Flood Hazard Area: Those lands within the jurisdiction of the village that are subject to inundation by the base flood. The SFHAs of the village are generally identified as such on the current flood insurance rate map of the village prepared by the federal emergency management agency. The SFHAs of those parts of unincorporated Cook County and Lake County that are within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the village or that may be annexed into the village are generally identified as such on the flood insurance rate map from time to time prepared for Cook County and Lake County by the federal emergency management agency.
(h) FPE Or Flood Protection Elevation: The elevation of the base flood plus two feet (2') at any given location in the SFHA.
(i) Current Flood Insurance Rate Map: The following flood insurance rate map ("FIRM") panels:
Community
| Effective Date Of FIRM
| FIRM Panel Numbers
|
Community
| Effective Date Of FIRM
| FIRM Panel Numbers
| ||
Deerfield (Cook County) | August 19, 2008 | 17031C0088J | ||
17031C0089J | ||||
17031C0069J | ||||
Unincorporated Cook County | August 19, 2008 | 17031C0069J | ||
Community | Effective Date Of Flood Insurance Study | |||
Deerfield | August 19, 2008 | |||
Unincorporated Cook County | August 19, 2008 | |||
(Ord. 0-77-60, 9-19-1977; Ord. 0-88-43, 7-18-1988; Ord. 0-08-31, 8-18-2008)