In order to accomplish its purpose, these regulations 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 floodwaters;
(d) Controlling filling, grading, dredging, excavating, and other development which may increase flood damage; and
(e) Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert floodwaters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas.