2025 11 18 City Council Regular Session Packet

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4. Accessory structures shall be firmly anchored to prevent flotation , collapse, and 
lateral movement, which otherwise may result in damage to other structures. 
 
5. Utilities and service facilities such as electrical and heating equipment shall be 
elevated or otherwise protected from intrusion of floodwaters. 
 
 
"Addition (to an existing building)"  means any walled and roofed expansion to the perimeter 
or height of a building. 
 
"Appeal" means a request for a review of the local enforcement officer’s interpretation of any 
provision of this Ordinance or a request for a variance. 
 
"Area of Shallow Flooding"  means a designated AO or AH Zone on a community's Flood 
Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with one percent or greater annual chance of flooding to an average 
depth of one to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of 
flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate; and where velocity flow may be evident.  Such 
flooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow. 
 
"Area of Special Flood -related Erosion Hazard"  is the land within a community which is 
most likely to be subject to severe flood -related erosion losses . The area may be designated as 
Zone E on the Flood Hazard Boundary Map (FHBM). After the detailed evaluation of the special 
flood-related erosion hazard area in preparation for publication of the FIRM, Zone E may be 
further refined. 
 
"Area of Special Flood Hazard"  see  “Special Flood Hazard Area”.  
 
"Base Flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any 
given year.  This term is also referred  to as the 100 -year flood or the one (1) -percent annual 
chance flood. 
 
"Basement" means any portion of a building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on 
all sides. 
 
"Building” see  “Structure”.  
 
"Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, 
but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, 
excavating, drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. 
 
"Elevated Building" means a non-basement building built to have the lowest floor of the lowest 
enclosed area elevated above the ground level by means of solid foundation perimeter walls with 
openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded movement of floodwater, pilings, columns, piers, 
or shear walls adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building 
during a base flood event.  
 
"Emergency Flood Insurance Program"  or "Emergency Program"  means the program as 
implemented on an emergency basis in accordance with Section 1336 of the Act. It is intended as 
a program to provide a first layer amount of insurance on all insurable structures before the 
effective date of the initial FIRM. 
 
"Erosion"   means the process of the gradual wearing away of land masses . This peril is not 
“per se” covered under the Program. 
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