(A) Purpose. It is the purpose of this section to promote the public health, safety and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by the following provisions, to:
(1) Protect human life and health;
(2) Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects;
(3) Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public;
(4) Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities, such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, and streets located in areas of special flood hazard; and
(5) Ensure that those who occupy the areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions.
(B) Geotechnical report required. In order to accomplish these purposes, all applications for a permitted use, conditional use, site plan, building permit, or any other approval, permit or license, as required herein, shall be required to provide a geotechnical report for any land area or parcel that has the potential for any special flood hazard. The areas of special flood hazard are identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a map entitled “flood insurance rate map” (FIRM), dated February 4, 1988. The geotechnical report shall be provided as follows:
(1) Be prepared at the applicant’s expense by a registered or licensed geologist, soils engineer or civil engineer; and
(2) Identify the suitability of the subject property to accommodate the proposed development, identifying all development constraints, limitations, conditions and mitigation actions, applying best management practices.
(Prior Code, § 10-5-13) (Ord. passed 8-10-2006)