(A) The responsible person shall require that all subdivision proposals and other proposed new developments greater than 50 lots or five acres, whichever is the lesser, include within such proposals base flood elevation data.
(B) The responsible person shall obtain, review, and reasonably utilize any base flood elevation data available from a federal, state, or other source, until such other data has been provided by the Administrator, as criteria for requiring that all new construction and substantial improvements of residential structures have the lowest floor (including basement) elevated to or above the base flood level and all new construction and substantial improvements of nonresidential structures have the lowest floor (including basement) elevated or floodproofed to or above the base flood level.
(C) For the purpose of the determination of applicable flood insurance risk premium rates within Zone A on a community’s FHBM, the responsible person shall obtain, or require the applicant to furnish, the elevation (in relation to mean sea level) of the lowest habitable floor (including basement) of all new or substantially improved structures, and whether or not such structures contain a basement, obtain, or require the applicant to furnish, if the structure has been floodproofed, the elevation (in relation to mean sea level) to which the structure was floodproofed, and maintain a record of all such information.
(‘82 Code, § 4-65-7) (Ord. 78-20, passed 7-24-78)