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191 <br /> RURAL BUFFER IMPLEMENTATION MEASURE <br /> Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance <br /> Descrietion <br /> Flood hazard areas have been identified in Orange <br /> County. The Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance restricts or <br /> prohibits land uses in these flood hazard areas. In doing so <br /> it prevents activity that would result in more severe flood <br /> hazards and reduces damage caused by floods by requiring Land <br /> uses in the flood hazard area to be protected against flood <br /> damage. It does this by prohibiting activity within an <br /> identified floodway from being developed in a way that would <br /> increase the elevation of a flood. This prevents floods from <br /> being made more severe. It reduces damage by requiring <br /> structures to be floodproof or built above the elevation of <br /> the projected flood. • <br /> Aggl2cgion <br /> Flood prone areas have been identified along every major <br /> stream in the rural buffer. These flood prone areas are <br /> shown on Flood Insurance Rate Maps prepared by the Federal <br /> Insurance Administration. The Flood Damage Prevention <br /> Ordinance is applied to these areas. Additionally, stream <br /> buffer requirements in protected watersheds are predicated on <br /> identified flood prone areas. <br /> References <br /> Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance, Orange County. <br />