This Chapter is intended to regulate floodplain development to:
(a) Protect life, health and property;
(b) Minimize expenditures of public funds for flood control projects;
(c) Minimize rescue and relief efforts undertaken at the expense of the taxpayers;
(d) Minimize business interruptions and other economic disruptions;
(e) Minimize damage to public facilities in the floodplain;
(f) Minimize the occurrence of future flood blight areas in the floodplain;
(g) Discourage the victimization of unwary land and home buyers;
(h) Prevent increases in flood heights that could increase flood damage and result in conflicts between property owners; and
(i) Discourage development in a floodplain if there is any practicable alternative to locate the activity, use or structure outside of the floodplain.