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Article 6: Development Standards Section 6.21: Flood Regulations Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 6-147 (A) Protect human life, safety, and health; (B) Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control projects; (C) Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public; (D) Minimize prolonged business losses and interruptions; (E) Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone, cable and other communication facilities, and sewer lines, streets, and bridges located in flood prone areas; (F) Minimize damage to private and public property due to flooding; (G) Make flood insurance available to the community through the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP); (H) Maintain the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains;31 (I) Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood prone areas in such a manner as to minimize flood blight areas; and (J) Ensure that potential homebuyers are notified that property is in a Special Flood Hazard Area. 6.21.3 Findings of Fact (A) The flood proneSpecial Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) are flood prone areas within the planning jurisdiction of Orange County which are subject to periodic inundation, which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare. (B) These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood prone areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazards to other lands, which are inadequately elevated, flood proofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages. Applicability Regulations pertaining to this overlay district shall apply to all SFHAs within the planning jurisdiction of Orange County and within the jurisdiction of any municipality within Orange County whose governing body has duly authorized its application within its municipal, or extraterritorial jurisdictional, boundaries in accordance with North Carolina law. 32 Basis for Establishment33 The SFHA are those identified by the FEMA or produced under the Cooperating Technical State agreement between the State of North Carolina and FEMA or Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and its accompanying FIRMs for Orange County dated February 2, 2007, with incorporation of Letters of Map Amendments 07-04-6156R, 08-04-2897A, 08- 04-2898A, 08-04-2899A, and 08-04-2900A, Letters of Map Revision 06-04-BQ22P, 06- 04-C141P, 07-04-6156R, and 08-04-1666P and Summary of Map Amendment #115- 31 Subsection(s) (F), (G), and (H) have been added to address modifications to the FEMA model flood ordinance. 32 This language is currently contained in Section 4.3.4 of the UDO. After conferring with the County’s Attorney Office this information is already duplicated in the revised Section 1.1.3. There is no need to repeat this information here. 33 This language is currently contained in Section 4.3.5 of the UDO. All of this information is now contained in Section 1.1.3 of this Ordinance. There is no need to repeat this information here. 139