(A) The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has identified special flood hazard areas of White Hall in the current scientific and engineering report entitled The Flood Insurance Study (FIS) for Jefferson County, Arkansas and incorporated areas, dated March 16, 2009, with an effective flood insurance rate map (FIRM) dated March 16, 2009.
(B) These special flood hazard areas are subject to periodic flooding events that result in loss of life and property, pose health and safety hazards, disrupt commerce and governmental services, and cause extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare.
(C) These periodic flooding events are exacerbated by the cumulative effect of floodplain developments which cause an increase in flood heights and velocities, and by the placement of inadequately elevated, inadequately floodproofed or otherwise unprotected structures or uses vulnerable to floods into special flood hazard areas. Such structures or uses are inherently hazardous to other lands because of their adverse impact on flooding events.
(Ord. 417, passed 1-20-09)