1375.03 METHODS OF REDUCING FLOOD LOSSES.

   In order to accomplish its purposes, this chapter includes methods and provisions for:

   (a)   Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to health, safety and property due to water hazards, or which result in damaging increases in flood heights or velocities;

   (b)   Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;

   (c)   Controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;

   (d)   Controlling filling, grading, dredging and other development which may increase flood damage; and

   (e)   Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas.

      (Ord. 92-9. Passed 3-16-92.)