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Proposed <br /> wall is provided between the addition and the existing building, the addition(s) shall be <br /> considered a separate building and must comply with the standards for new construction. <br /> "Appeal" means a request from a review of the local administrator's interpretation of any <br /> provision of this ordinance. <br /> "Area of shallow flooding" means a designated AO or VO Zone on a community's Flood <br /> Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with base flood depths from one to three feet where a clearly <br /> defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate, <br /> and where velocity flow may be evident. <br /> "Area of special flood hazard" is the land in the floodplain within a community subject to a one <br /> percent or greater chance of being flooded in any given year. <br /> "Base flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any <br /> given year. <br /> "Basement" means that lowest level or story which has its floor subgrade on all sides. <br /> "Breakaway" means a wall that is not part of the structural support of the building and is <br /> intended through its design and construction to collapse under specific lateral loading forces <br /> without causing damage to the elevated portion of the building or the supporting foundation <br /> system. A breakaway wall shall have a design safe loading resistance of not less than 10 and <br /> no more than 20 pounds per square foot. A wall with loading resistance of more than 20 pounds <br /> per square foot requires a professional engineer or architect's certificate. <br /> "Building" means any structure built for support, shelter, or enclosure for any occupancy or <br /> storage. <br /> "Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, <br /> but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, <br /> excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. <br /> "Elevated building" means a non-basement building (a) built, in the case of a building in Zones <br /> Al-A30, AE, A, A99, A0, AH, B, C, or X to have the top of the elevated floor, above the <br /> ground by means of pilings, columns (posts and piers), shear walls parallel to the flow of water <br /> and, (b) adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building during <br /> a flood up to the magnitude of the base flood. In the case of Zones Al-A30, AE, A, A99, A0, <br /> AH, B, C, and X, "elevated building" also includes a building elevated by means of fill or solid <br /> foundation perimeter walls with openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded movement of <br /> flood waters. <br /> "Existing manufactured home park or manufactured home subdivision" means a manufactured <br /> home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which <br /> the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, <br /> the construction of streets , and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is <br /> completed before March 21, 1981. <br /> 3 <br />