(A) The minimum first floor elevation of all developments outside the storm tide protection levee (seawall) shall be one foot above the 100-year flood as shown on the Flood Insurance Study Map, Coastal Areas—Gulf of Mexico, prepared for the Federal Emergency Management Agency by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston, Texas, dated May 1970. For general information only, this minimum first floor elevation is 15.6 feet mean sea level at State Highway 146 and Dickinson Bayou and 14.3 feet mean sea level at State Highway 146 and Gulf Freeway (Interstate Highway 45).
(B) The minimum first floor elevation for all new development inside and protected from hurricane flood tides by the storm tide protection levee (seawall) shall be seven feet mean sea level, but the elevation shall also be not less than one foot six inches above the top of the curb of the street abutting the property upon which the new development is being constructed.
(Ord. 08-29, passed 10-21-2009)