The objectives of this chapter are:
(A) To protect human life and health;
(B) To minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects;
(C) To minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
(D) To minimize prolonged business interruptions;
(E) To minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, street and bridges located in flood plains;
(F) To help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood prone areas in such a manner as to minimize flood blight areas, and;
(G) To insure that potential homebuyers are notified that property is in a flood area.
(H) To provide protection to assets and infrastructure against sea level rise;
(I) To build resilience throughout the community to better respond to recurrent burdens and sudden disasters;
(J) To increase property protection for all structures during flooding events due to hurricane and rainwater flooding; and
(K) To protect the natural floodplain functions and capacity for flooding within the community.
(Ord. 2016-14, passed 1-19-2017; Ord. 2020-11, passed 12-17-2020)