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40 <br />PART XXN. Section II. Definitions of the Subdivision Regulations is hereby amended by adding <br />the following definitions and deleting the eavsting definitions as follows: <br />"Floodnlain refers to any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source more <br />specifically, lands subiect to a one (1) percent or greater chance of being flooded in an~given e~ <br />determined in the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance The floodplain is also referred to as the s e~ cial <br />flood hazard area. Special flood hazard areas are mapped in the Federal Emergency ement <br />A~ency Flood Insurance Rate Maps as Zone AE for areas where the base flood elevation has been <br />determined, and Zone A, where no base flood elevation has been determined " <br />"Floodwav means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be <br />reserved in order to dischazge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation <br />more than one (1) foot. This term may also be referred to as the regul~ry floodway " . <br />"Special flood hazard areas refer to azeas mapped in the Federal Emer enc~anagement Agency Flood <br />Insurance Rate Maps, with an effective date of February 2 2007 as Zone AE for azeas where the base <br />flood elevation has been determined and Zone A where no base flood elevation has been determined." <br />PART XXV. That the Orange County Zoning Atlas is hereby. amended to create the Special Flood <br />Hazard Area (SERA) Overlay District incorporating data from the <br />aforementioned amended FIRM maps onto the Zoning Atlas, and <br />PART XXV. The Orange County Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance is hereby rescinded in its <br />present form and is no longer in effect. <br />Adoption certification. I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of the amendments to the <br />Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations, as adopted by the Board of County Commissioners of <br />Orange County, North Carolina, on the day of 2009. <br />WITNESS my hand and the official seal of, this the _ day of , 2009. . <br />Donna Baker Seal: <br />Clerk to BOCC <br />PART XXVI. This Ordinance shall be effective upon adoption. Adopted this the day <br />of , 2009, upon motion of Commissioner ,seconded by <br />Commissioner <br />I, Donna Baker, Clerk to the Boazd of Commissioners for the County of Orange, North Cazolina, <br />DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of so much of the proceedings of said Boazd at <br />a meeting held on, 2009 as relates in any way to the adoption of the foregoing and that said proceedings <br />are recorded in the minutes of said Boazd. <br />WITNESS my hand and the seal of said County, this day of , 2009. <br />Clerk to the Boazd of Commissioners <br />