This chapter is enacted to establish reasonable rules and regulations for floodplain and stormwater management in order to:
A. Minimize harm due to periodic flooding including loss of life and property and threats and inconveniences to public health, safety and welfare;
B. Assure that new development does not increase flooding and drainage hazards to others, or create unstable conditions susceptible to erosion;
C. Lessen the financial burden on the taxpayer for flood control projects, repairs to flood damaged public facilities and utilities, and for flood rescue and relief operations;
D. Protect, assure and promote the orderly development of land and water resources;
E. Protect buildings and improvements to buildings from flood damage to the greatest extent possible;
F. Preserve the natural hydrologic, hydraulic and other beneficial functions of watercourses, floodplains, wetlands and protect water quality;
G. Ensure "no net loss" of the village's existing wetland resources including acreage, types and functional values;
H. Conserve the flood mitigation and stormwater control benefits of wetlands which store and desynchronize flood flows;
I. Enhance pollution treatment and water quality by conserving wetlands which serve as sedimentation and filtering basins for organic and inorganic nutrients and toxic materials;
J. Protect the quality of groundwater and recharge sites;
K. Prevent disruption of the economy and governmental services due to stormwater and flood damage;
L. Maintain eligibility for the village in the national flood insurance program and thus make federally subsidized flood insurance available; and
M. Preserve and protect plants, fish and wildlife. (Ord. 505-91, 11-11-1991; amd. Ord. 1972-19, 9-23-2019)