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12 <br />c. Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective <br />barriers, which are involved in the accommodation of flood waters: <br />d. Control filling rg ailing, dredging, and all other development, which may increase <br />erosion or flood damage: and <br />e. Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers, which will unnaturally divert <br />floodwaters or which may increase flood hazazds to other lands. <br />Sec. 4.2.35 Obiectives. <br />The objectives of SFHA Overlay District aze to: <br />a. Protect human life, safety, and health; <br />b. Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control.projects• <br />c. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and <br />eg n~y undertaken at the expense of the eneral up blic; <br />d. Minimize rn olonged business losses and interru tip ons; <br />e. Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains <br />electric, telephone, cable and other communication facilities, and sewer lines streets <br />and bridges located in flood-prone areas; <br />f. Help maintain a stable tax base b~providing for the sound use and development of <br />flood prone areas in such a manner as to minimize flood blight areas; and <br />~. Ensure that potential homebuyers are notified that ~roperty is in a Special Flood <br />Hazard Area. <br />Sec. 4.2.36 Statutory authorization. <br />Under the authority outline in Section 1.7, the Board of .Commissioners of Orange <br />County, North Carolina, does enact the SFT3A Overlay District regulations as detailed <br />herein. <br />Sec. 4.2.37 Findings of fact. <br />a) The flood prone azeas within the planning_jurisdiction of Orange County are subject <br />to periodic inundation, which results in loss of life ~roperty health and safety <br />hazazds, disruption of commerce and governmental services extraordinar,~! ublic <br />expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base all of <br />which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare <br />b) These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in flood lp ains <br />causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood <br />