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d. Control filling grading 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 hazards to other lands. <br />Sec. 4.2.35 Obiectives. <br />The objectives of SFHA Overlay District are to: <br />a. Protect human life, safety, and health; <br />b. Minimize expenditure of public monexfor costly flood control proiects; <br />c. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and <br />eg nerally undertaken at the expense of the eg neral public; <br />d. Minimize prolonged business losses and interruptions; <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 by providingLfor the sound use and development of <br />flood prone areas in such a manner as to minimize flood blight areas; and <br />g. Ensure that potential homebuyers are notified that property 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 SFHA Overlay District regulations as detailed <br />herein. <br />Sec. 4.2.37 Findings of fact. <br />a) The flood prone areas within the ~lanning_iurisdiction of Orange County are subject <br />to periodic inundation which results in loss of life property, health and safety <br />hazards disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public <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 floodplains <br />causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood <br />prone areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazards to other lands, which are <br />inadequately elevated flood roofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages. <br />