It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas, by provisions designed to:
(A) Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
(B) Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities that serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(C) Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers involved in the accommodation of floodwaters;
(D) Control filling, grading, dredging, and other development that may increase erosion or flood damage;
(E) Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers that will unnaturally divert floodwaters, or that may increase flood hazards to other lands; and
(F) Make federal flood insurance available for structures and their contents in the town by fulfilling the requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program.
(Ord. 2007-8, passed 7-23-07; Am. Ord. 2014-17, passed 11-24-14)