A. Variances may be issued for the reconstruction, rehabilitation or restoration of structures listed on the National Register of Historical Places of the State Inventory of Historic Places, without regard to the procedures at set forth in the remainder of this section.
B. Variances shall not be issued within any designated floodway if any increase in flood levels during the base flood discharge would result.
C. Variances shall only be issued upon a determination that the variance is the minimum necessary, considering the flood hazard, to afford relief.
D. Variances shall only be issued upon:
1. A showing of good and sufficient cause;
2. A determination that failure to grant the variance would result in exceptional hardship to the applicant; and
3. A determination that the granting of a variance will not result in increased flood heights, additional threats to public safety, extraordinary public expense, create nuisances, cause fraud on or victimization of, the public, or conflict with existing local laws or ordinances.
E. Any applicant to whom a variance is granted shall be given written notice that the structure will be permitted to be built with a lowest floor elevation below the base flood elevation and that the cost of flood insurance will be commensurate with the increased risk resulting from the reduced lowest floor elevation. Such notice will also state that the land upon which the variance is granted shall be ineligible for exchange of state land pursuant to the flood relocation and land exchange program provided for by Arizona Revised Statutes title 26, chapter 2, article 2. A copy of the notice shall be recorded by the floodplain board in the office of the Cochise County recorder and shall be recorded in a manner so that it appears in the chain of title of the affected parcel of land. (Ord. 1-1983, 2-16-1983)