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09/26/2005 38 <br />Sec. 42-95. Standards for areas of shallow flooding (AO zones). <br />Located within the. SFHAs established in Section 42-37, aze azeas designated as shallow <br />flooding azeas. These areas have special flood hazards associated with base flood depths of one (1) to <br />three (3) feet where. a cleazly defined channel does not exist and where the path of flooding is <br />unpredictable and indeterminate. The following provisions shall apply within such azeas: <br />1. All new construction and substantial improvements of all structures shall have the lowest <br />floor, including basement, elevated to the depth number specified on the FIRM, in feet, <br />above the highest adjacent grade. If no depth number is specified, the lowest floor, including <br />basement, shall be elevated at least two feet above regulatory <br />flood protection elevation as defined for the SFHAs, where no BFE has been established. <br />2. All new construction and substantial improvements of non-residential structures shall have <br />the option, in lieu of elevation, to be completely flood proofed together with attendant <br />utilities and sanitary facilities to or above that level so that any space below that level is the <br />watertight with walls <br />substantially impermeable to the passage of water and with structural components having the <br />capacity of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy. <br />Certification is required as per Section 42-68(3) and Section 42-92(2). <br />(Ord. of 8-28-1995, § 5.5, eff. 8-28-1995) <br />Sec. 42-96. Effect upon outstanding floodplain development permits. <br />Nothing herein contained shall require any change in the plans, construction, size, or <br />designated use of any a development or any part thereof for which a floodplain <br />development b~l~g permit has been granted by the Floodplain (5) <br />Administrator or his/her authorized agents before the time of passage of this Ordinance; provided, <br />however, that when construction is not begun under such outstanding permit within a period of sib} <br />f 6A}~a}s six (6) months subsequent to 'passage of this <br />Ordinance or any revision thereto, construction or use shall be in conformity with the provisions of this <br />Ordinance. <br />(Ord. of 8-28-1995, § 5.5, eff. 8-28-1995) <br />DIVISION 4. LEGAL STATUS PROVISIONS. <br />Sec.42-97. Effect on rights and liabilities under the existing flood damage prevention <br />ordinance. <br />.This Ordinance in part comes forwazd by re-enactment of some of the provisions of the flood <br />damage prevention ordinance enacted Mazch 2, 1981, as amended, and it is not the intention to repeal <br />but rather to re-enact and continue to enforce without interruption of such existing provisions, so that all <br />rights and liabilities that have accrued hereunder aze reserved and may be enforced. The enactment of <br />this Ordinance shall not affect any action, suit or proceeding instituted or pending. All provisions of the <br />