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Page 7 of 9 <br />The N.C. Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance provides for the automatid adoption Of <br />revisions to•such ordinaim without any farther legislative action by the appropriate city COUROU <br />and the board of County emmisf Onem It incorporates future changes in NM floodplain <br />management Cdtoa. It specifies that maps "as aMezided!'"wd a" revision therein" are <br />automatically bytheWinandewithoutan aMwftCMt0f the Winaim M*fionof <br />auto -and zones. Plopeiiymay . be -v�� if the <br />1�ew FEKA maps mayimpadhazards malipifig <br />that limits or purdhibits land um that previously <br />local goverrimmit adopts or amends an ordinanct yreqwas <br />rezone propert <br />were allowod . in the off zone. An YkIn= tliat-PWPOsts to <br />tinnolicc.tatieaffected tmdowneiix. A zoning ordinanct-th3t incorporates bYrefcmcculI <br />More amendiftentj or moffificaflons of flood 4suraim. m4• and subsequent ravidons is an <br />unlawful dclegWdn of ]OLOO&O WIthOxitY.'TO i=rPOratO fiftrd changes to aft.ord'Wince will <br />unlawfully delegate 6 another body; pesson, or cWtY such as FEMA the power to change that. <br />'cTdmaoce, which is a power thaf should be reserved to the city council or the board Ofcauritk <br />State law atN.C_G.S. §143215:560 prQyides that once MAepproves the floodPIdin <br />map for theNM; dia% dabhlwal govwimentiflacted by the hoodplamnyqs�incorpdrde the <br />-rdvitdd MOO into its flOOdPlOin ordinance. . state law at M.C.036 9153A2-47 and MC.G.S. 116OA- <br />74(b) provide that a city or couftty may adopt in an ordinance reolations promnlgawdby a <br />public agency. 'These statutes, N.C.O.S. §153A-47 and §160A- 76(b), seem to-perimt a.countyor <br />eayto adapt the federal regulations *diiudpted.bya public agency, FEM& S0fCMlY these . <br />statutes, N.C.G.S. §153A-47 and §16DA;-76(b); semi. topermit a county orci" adept FFM'sV <br />ndesjucluftgbut may not.bre limited W, 44 CXYL ParW 59 mid 65, fdrth=aWWgofsPWW <br />ity or countyih# adopt in its <br />hood hazard a=."Umste statutes seem to suggest that the -61 <br />ordinance FMWs ftdtjtlons fQr•mapping.'spacial flood hazirdarcas: Itis unclear whether <br />permit a city or county W !wAqMrAO <br />§153A47 and §160A-76(b), V <br />FMA!i; (Oft" rides or fixtigra;imendIfticaits for mapping special flood hazard tunas. <br />State law at N.CG.S. §.160A-384, §153A-343 and- §153A-344 outlinatpedfic procedti'm, <br />for dineading zoning ordinances for cities, towns and counties, mspedv*, 111PIT414b(It May <br />not be limited td. providing HWCOD certain landowners and apublie fienitiX Adq*nof <br />a Study or the Flood Insurance Maps for an area carder the <br />=dnilinant to thi Flood Insurance <br />local jivisdiction fiwstbt,"e in accordance with tho "t0TY pro6edures•at-MCBS. §.160A- <br />-343 and §1.53A_344: VWle N.C.G.S. ff I 53A-4 and 16OA4 Mmidde that gmt <br />30, §153A <br />Orauthority 10 local g6verriments be broadly interpreted, zor#ng authority idannot be exencised in <br />a manner contrary to the CXPr= Provisions of the zoning enabling authority." In ' o <br />Lancaster v Mecklenburg Coelho 334 N.C. 496.434 SE2d•604 (1993). It is settled law in <br />Nora Carolina any zoning ordiitance must be amended in accordance, with state law. "[A] zoning <br />art in an Do or an amendment thmio which is not adapted in accordance with the enabling statutes <br />is invalid and ineffective." Sellers v. City of Asheville, 33 N.C. APP. 544, 23 6 S R24 283 <br />, <br />(1977). it has been hold that thastatestalutotyrequireWO <br />in addition to complying with be local* <br />bre <br />zoning authority must comply with all requirements of its own local zoning ordinance <br />90 <br />