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724 <br /> A•- <br /> () <br /> AGENDA ATTACHMENT 6 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT <br /> FiTTSSBOROUGH <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br /> 101. <br /> L - <br /> 41, <br /> Memo To: Board of County Commissioners <br /> From: Planning Staff <br /> Date: April 23, 1981 <br /> Re: Amendments to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance <br /> On March 18, 1981 we received a letter from the Federal Emergency Management <br /> Agency saying they had completed their review of the flood ordinance adopted <br /> by the County on March 2, 1981. They found the ordinance satisfactory with <br /> one exception. They requested that within 60 days, the County submit to <br /> them a revision to Section 4.2 of the ordinance deleting subsection 4.2(e). <br /> This change will remove from the, list of uses permitted by right in flood <br /> ways streets, bridges and certain other similar uses. Location of these <br /> uses in floodways henceforth would require the issuance of a variance by the <br /> Board of Adjustment. This change will bring the ordinance into compliance <br /> with State legislation and Federal regulations pertaining to floodways. <br /> Planning staff recommends this amendment. <br /> The Planning Board at its February 10, 1981 meeting considered the following <br /> two questions regarding regulation of flood hazard areas; <br /> (a) appropriate regulations for flood hazard areas. <br /> (b) areas to which regulations should apply. <br /> Flood maps provided to the County under the National Flood Insurance Program <br /> delineate two regions for regulation within areas subject to flooding. <br /> Floodways are the stream channel and adjoining lands necessary to discharge <br /> the 100-year flood waters. Federal program requirements allow very limited <br /> use of the floodway. This area must be kept free of structures and other <br /> uses which would restrict the discharge of flood waters. The floodway <br /> fringe is land not in the floodway but still subject to flooding. <br /> Federal program requirements allow structures in the floodway fringe if they <br /> are elevated above the 100-year flood level or flood-proofed. <br /> The Planning Board has recommended that the more stringent regulations for <br /> floodways apply to the floodway fringe as well. <br />