(a) All new buildings and substantial improvements to existing buildings shall be protected from flood damage up to the Flood Protection Elevation (FPE) and shall be in accordance with all applicable Federal, State and local ordinances, and rules and regulations. Floodway alteration shall be permitted only upon review and approval by the City, in accordance with an approved drainage plan.
(b) A drainage plan. providing for the filling or alteration of a floodway may include provisions for maintaining stability of the banks of streams or other water bodies, by means of the establishing of buffer zones and other means of providing protection of the slopes and banks of water bodies.
(c) Within any required buffer zone, no earth change shall take place except in accordance with the approved drainage plan. Such a plan may also include provisions for the replacement of floodplain storage volume, where such storage volume is lost or diminished as a result of approved development.
(Ord. 07-2002-10. Passed 7-2-02.)