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than a re wall. Pnv walled and roofed addition which <br />connected by a 11 re wall or is separated indenende^t <br />perimeter logd-bearina walls is new construction. <br />"Appeal" means a request from a review of the Zonin <br />Officer's interpretation of any provision of this ordinance. <br />"Area of Shallow Flooding" means a designated AO or vO zone <br />on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Mao (FIRM) Hijt base <br />flood deaths from one to three feet where a clearly defined <br />channel does not. exist, .,where _the .math flooding is <br />unpredictable and indeterminate and where velocity flow may <br />be evident. <br />"Area of Special Flood Hazard" is the land in the floodolain <br />within a community aatject to a one percent or treater chance <br />of being equaled o exceeded in any given vear. <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 />debris and, thereby, reducing the flood- carrying capacity of <br />the stream. <br />"Base Flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of <br />being equaled or exceeded in any given year, also knowr. as <br />the 100-year flood. <br />"Basement" means that lowest level or story which has 4ts <br />floor subarade on all sides. <br />"Breakaway Wall" means a wall that is not tart of the <br />structural support of the building and is intended through <br />its desi n and construction ao collapse under specific <br />lateral loading forces without causing damage to the elevated <br />portion of the bui_ ldina o-- the sutportinc foundation system. <br />breakawav wall shall have a design sa=e loading resistance <br />of not less than 10 and ro more than 20 pounds ter scuare <br />foot. L wall with loading resistance e= more thar. 20 pc;:nds <br />scuare moot reot;].rea a ng ofessionai enci veer on <br />architect's cert ficate <br />"Building" means any structure bu;lt for �9=ort, shelter, o- <br />enclosure -for a_nv occupancv or storage. ` <br />"Pevelgipment" means any man -made change to improved or <br />unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, <br />buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, <br />grading, paving, excavation or drilling opera7,ions, or <br />s`..oraae o` ecuinment or materials. <br />"Elevated 3uildinc" means a non - basement buildint (a� <br />in the case .Qj Z build =nvn 2ones!_ -A30, AE', � ApS, FO, <br />P $ . _C� � X ao have the tot of the elevated floor, on <br />t .1 case 2f a bui ld;inc_ in Zones V2-V30, VE or V to have the <br />bottom of the lowest horizontal structure member of she <br />elevated ,kloor above the round ears of Min_ as, columns <br />