ORD-2005-127 - Revisions to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance

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09/15/2005 lb Building, see "Structure". Chemical storage facility means a building, portion of a building, or exterior area adjacent to a building used for the storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products. (3) Development means any constructed change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. Removed old terms no Disposal defined as in NCGS 130A- 290(a)(6). longer used. Elevated Building means a non - basement building, which has its reference level raised above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings, or columns with openings sufficient to facilitate automatic equalization of hydrostatic flood forces on exterior walls by allowing entry and exit offloodwaters and the unimpeded movement offloodwaters. (3) Encroachment means the advance or infringement of uses, fill, excavation, buildings, permanent structures or development into a floodplain, which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a floodplain. Existing Construction means structures for which the "start of construction " commenced before March 16, 1981. This term may also be referred to as "existing structures. " Existing manufactured home park or manufactured home subdivision means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) completed before March 16, 1981. Flood and flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow of inland or tidal waters and the unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff of surface waters from any source. Flood boundary and floodway map (FBFM) means an official map of Orange County, issued by FEMA, on which FEMA has delineated the Special Flood Hazard Areas and the floodways. This (3) official map is a supplement to and shall be used in conjunction with the FIRM. Flood hazard boundary map (FHBM means an official map of a Orange County, issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where the boundaries of the Special Flood Hazard Areas have been defined as Zone A. Flood Insurance means the insurance coverage provided under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Flood insurance rate map (FIRAV means an official, adopted Orange County map, issued by the FEM4, on which both the Special Flood Hazard Areas and the risk premium zones applicable to the county are delineated.