Located within areas of special flood hazard are areas designated as floodways. Since the floodway is an extremely hazardous area due to the velocity of flood waters which carry debris, potential projectiles, and erosion potential, the following provisions apply:
(a) No encroachments, structures, fill, new construction, substantial improvements, additions, development, storage or placement of vehicles, debris or other materials, or other uses which may increase flood depths or interfere with flood flows to any degree are allowed unless certification by a registered professional engineer is provided to the Floodplain Administrator through a "No Rise" Certification demonstrating that the proposed use shall not result in any increase in flood levels during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.
(b) If a "No Rise" Certification satisfactory to the Floodplain Administrator is provided, the use may be allowed provided all other requirements of this Chapter are met.
(c) "Breakaway" fence sections may be allowed within the floodway if it can be successfully demonstrated that all sections not parallel to the direction of flow would safely fail in place due to a force less than that of the site-specific peak 1% annual chance flow within the floodway.
(Amended by Ord. No. 9998 (N.S.), effective 9-4-09; amended by Ord. No. 10631 (N.S.), effective 11-29-19)