17.810.020   Development agreements.
The city council shall not approve the execution of a development agreement for property that is located within a flood hazard zone unless the city council finds, based on substantial evidence in the record, one of the following:
   A.   The facilities of the State Plan of Flood Control or other flood management facilities protect the property to the urban level of flood protection in urban and urbanizing areas or the national Federal Emergency Management Agency standard of flood protection in nonurbanized areas;
   B.   The city has imposed conditions on the development agreement that will protect the property to the urban level of flood protection in urban and urbanizing areas or the national Federal Emergency Management Agency standard of flood protection in nonurbanized areas;
   C.   The local flood management agency has made adequate progress (as defined in California Government Code sec-tion 65007) on the construction of a flood protection system that will result in flood protection equal to or greater than the urban level of flood protection in urban or urbanizing areas or the national Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency standard of flood protection in nonurbanized areas for property located within a flood hazard zone, intended to be protected by the system;
   D.   The property in an undetermined risk area has met the urban level of flood protection;
   E.   The property is located in an area of potential flooding of three feet or less from sources other than local drainage or potential flooding from local drainage that meets the criteria of the national Federal Emergency Management Agency standard of flood protection; or
   F.   The property is located within a watershed with a contributing area of 10 or fewer square miles. (Ord. 2016-0012 § 5)