Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 15.32 FLOOD HAZARD AREAS*
15.32.030 Content.
In order to accomplish its purposes, this ordinance includes methods and
provisions for:
A. Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to
health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in
damaging increases in erosion or flood heights or velocities;
B. Requiring
that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be
protected against flood damage at the time of initial
construction;
C. Controlling the alteration of natural floodplains, stream
channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel
floodwater;
D. Controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other development
which may increase flood damage; and
E. Preventing or regulating the
construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert floodwaters or
which may increase flood hazards in other areas. (Ord. 1312-87 (part),
1987).
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