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(A) A breakaway wall shall have a safe design loading resistance of not less than 10 and no more than 20 pounds per square foot.
(B) Use of breakaway walls must be certified by a registered engineer or architect and shall meet the following conditions:
(1) Breakaway wall collapse shall result from a water load less than that which would occur during the base flood; and
(2) The elevated portion of the building shall not incur any structural damage due to the effects of wind and water loads acting simultaneously in the event of the base flood.
(`64 Code, Sec. 35-4) (Ord. No. 2426, 2640)
(A) For mobile homes not within a mobile home park or mobile home subdivision, "start of construction" means the affixing of the mobile home to its permanent site.
(B) For mobile homes within mobile home parks or mobile home subdivisions, "start of construction" is the date on which the construction of facilities to serve the site on which the mobile home is to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the construction of streets, either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads, and installation of utilities) is completed.
(`64 Code, Sec. 35-5) (Ord. No. 2426, 2640)
"Substantial improvement" means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other proposed new development of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement. This term includes structures which have incurred substantial damage, regardless of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include either:
(A) Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing violations of State or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which have been identified by the local code enforcement official and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions; or
(B) Any alteration of an historic structure, provided that the alteration will not preclude the structure's continued designation as an historic structure.
(`64 Code, Sec. 35-6) (Ord. No. 2426, 2640)
A structure or other development without an elevation certificate, other certifications, or other evidence of compliance required in this chapter is presumed to be in violation until such time as that documentation is provided to the city.
(`64 Code, Sec. 35-7) (Ord. No. 2426, 2640)
(A) The areas of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the Federal Insurance Administration in a scientific and engineering report entitled βThe Flood Insurance Study for the City of Oxnard,β dated March 1, 1979, and accompanying flood insurance rate maps dated March 1, 1979, and all subsequent revisions are hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this chapter.
(B) The flood insurance study is the minimum area of applicability of this chapter and may be supplemented by studies for other areas that allow implementation of this chapter and that are recommended to the city council by the floodplain administrator.
(C) The flood insurance study is on file at City Hall, 305 West Third Street, Oxnard, California.
(`64 Code, Sec. 35-9) (Ord. No. 2426, 2640, 2989)
No structure or land shall hereafter be constructed, located, extended, converted, or altered without full compliance with the terms of this chapter and other applicable regulations. Violations of the provisions of this chapter by failure to comply with any of its requirements (including violations of conditions and safeguards established in connection with conditions) shall constitute a misdemeanor. Nothing herein shall prevent the city from taking such lawful action as is necessary to prevent or remedy any violation.
(`64 Code, Sec. 35-10) (Ord. No. 2426, 2640)
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