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4o <br />PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT <br />ORDINANCE: FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE <br />REFERENCE: Article 2 - Definitions <br />Article 4.5 - Manufactured Homes <br />ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: x_ Staff <br />BOCC <br />Other: <br />STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: High <br />Comment: <br />Planning Board <br />Public <br />Middle _x _Low <br />EXPECTED PUBLIC HEARING DATE: December 11, 1990 <br />PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: <br />To comply with revisions recommended by the Federal Emergency <br />Management Agency. <br />IMPACTS /ISSUES: <br />The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has recently <br />revised the floodplain management regulations. Orange County <br />received a memo from the agency in Atlanta recommending <br />changes to the Orange County Flood Damage Prevention <br />Ordinance. These revisions are additions and clarifications <br />of existing definitions to correspond to the model ordinance <br />definitions and new.requirements concerning Manufactured <br />Homes. Replacement Manufactured Homes in existing parks will <br />now have to elevate to the base flood elevation or 36 inches <br />in height above grade on reinforced piers. The proposed <br />amendments to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance reflect <br />these recommended changes. <br />EXISTING ORDINANCE PROVISIONS: <br />ARTICLE 2. DEFINITIONS <br />Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in <br />this ordinance shall be interpreted so as to give them the <br />meaning they have in'common usage and to give this ordinance <br />its most reasonable application.. <br />"Anneal" means a request for a review of the Zoning Officer's <br />interpretation of any provision of this ordinance. <br />"Area of stiecial flood hazard" is the -land in the floodway <br />and floodway fringe as defined in this ordinance. <br />"Artificial obstruction" means any obstruction, which is not <br />a natural obstruction, including any which, while not a <br />significant obstruction in itself, is capable of accumulating <br />s <br />