(1) Purpose
(a) Certain areas of the city are subject to periodic inundation that could result in the loss of life and property, the creation of health and safety hazards, the disruption of commerce and government services, and the extraordinary and unnecessary expenditure of public funds for flood protection and relief. Such flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in natural flood hazard areas, which cause increases in flood heights and velocities. Uses and structures that are inadequately floodproofed, elevated, anchored, or otherwise protected from flood damage also contribute to such flood loss.
(b) The FA Flood Hazard Area Overlay District is established to protect the natural flood storage capacity by minimizing obstructions within the floodway and floodplain, by requiring uses vulnerable to flood damage to be protected and/or floodproofed, and to ensure that potential buyers are notified that property is in an area of special flood hazard.
(2) Boundaries of FA Overlay District
(a) Areas of Special Flood Hazard
Areas of special flood hazard have been identified in scientific and engineering reports by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) entitled Flood Insurance Study, County of Miami, Ohio, dated August 2, 2011; and by the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture in Flood Plain Management Study, Miami County, Ohio, dated August 2, 2011; and by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in its City of Tipp City, Ohio Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), dated August 2, 2011. These studies, with accompanying maps are hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this chapter for the purposes of establishing the boundaries of the FA Overlay District.
(b) Modifications to FA Boundaries
Areas investigated by engineering study and identified by flood easements on approved subdivision plats shall be included in the FA Overlay District. Where such studies and easements refine the information available for previously existing flood hazard areas, the resulting flood easements shall act to reduce, enlarge, or relocate the boundaries of the FA Overlay District. Such modifications shall be effective upon passage of the ordinance approving the plat, and shall not require amendment of the zoning map through the process described in this section.
(3) Standards
(a) All construction, development, remodeling, change of use, and change of grade of properties in the FA Overlay District shall comply with the standards of Chapter 153 of the Tipp City Code of Ordinances, as currently enacted and as may be hereafter amended.
(b) The development permit required by Chapter 153 shall not be issued until the applicable site plan or zoning compliance permit has been approved, in accordance with the requirements for review of special uses, as further described in this section or chapter.
(Ord. 5-14, passed 3-17-2014)