(A) Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to:
(1) To protect human life and health;
(2) To minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood, drainage, and erosion control projects;
(3)
To minimize the need for relief and rescue efforts associated with drainage and erosion and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
(4) To minimize prolonged business and traffic interruptions;
(5) To minimize damage to public and private facilities;
(6) Prevent, to the extent feasible, the discharge of storm runoff from public facilities onto private property; and
(7) Provide for timely and effective construction and maintenance of storm drainage facilities.
(B) Methods of reducing drainage and erosion losses. In order to accomplish its purposes, this chapter includes methods and provisions to:
(1) Restrict or prohibit uses and practices which are dangerous to health, safety, and property in times of flooding or cause excessive increases in flood heights or velocities;
(2) Require that uses vulnerable to erosion, including facilities which serve the uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(3) Control the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;
(4) Control filling, grading, dredging, and other development activities which may increase drainage or erosion damage within the flood plain areas, floodways, and erosion prone areas; and
(5) Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divide runoff waters or which may increase flood or erosion hazards in other areas.
(Ord. 77, passed 1-5-2005; Am. Ord. 194, passed 12-16-2020)