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VA than a ire wall. A_ny walled and roofed addition which is connected by a fire wall or is senarated by indenende -- perimeter load-bearing walls is new construction. "AA20 eal" means a request from a review of the zoning Officer's interpretation of any provision of this ordinance. "Area of Sha low Flooding" means a designated AO or vO zone on a commu itv's Flood Insurance Rate Mar) tFIRMI w base flood depths from one to three feet where a clearly defi -ed -channel does not. exist, ..where._the . i th o.F ,flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate and where velocity flow may be evident. "Area of Snecial Flood Hazard" is the land in the floodnlain within a community subject to a one percent or creates chance of be-.ng equaled or exceeded in a =y criven year. "Artificial obstruction" means any obstruction, which is not a natural obstruction, including any which, while not a significant obstruction in itself, is capable of accumulating debris and, thereby, reducing the flood- carrying capacity of the stream. ase Flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, also known as the 100-year flood. "Basement" means that lowest level or story which has its floor sub rade on all sides. "Breakaway Wall" means a wall that is not hart of the structural sup -oort of the building and is intended throuch its desi n and construction to collapse under snec;fic lateral loading forces without causing damaoe to the elevated nortion Of the building or the sutDOrting flu ndation systen. A b- eakawav wall shall have a design safe loading resistance of not less than i0 and no more than 20 nounds per scuare foot. A wall with loading resistance of more than 20 tcunds p =r sguare foot require., a nYefessionel engineer or arch'tect's certificate. "Bui ldina" means an—v structure built for support shelter-, o- enclosuge for any occunancv or storage.. "Day- elopment" means any man -made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not li.*nited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, o'- s }o age of equipment o,�- maueri als . "Elevated $uilding means a non - basement building Laj_ built An the case of a bu� Wilding jLn Zones 7- j -v 30 xF, x.1 z �9J Foy Pa B� or X to aye the tot) of the e�evated floor, or n the case of a building in Zones VI -vao, V= or v_ oo have the bottom of the owest horizontal structure member of the elevated oor above the &round means of pilings, columns