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Article 1: Administration Section 1.1: General Provisions Orange County, North Carolina – Unified Development Ordinance Page 1-2 (B)(C) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM), specifically FIRM Map Index 37135 CINDOC with an effective date of May 16, 2008 as well as all FIRM panels contained therein, developed by FEMA under a Cooperating Technical State agreement with the State of North Carolina and the Flood Insurance Study are hereby established as shown on the Official Zoning Atlas as the Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay Zoning District, The Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHA) are those identified under the Cooperating Technical State (CTS) agreement between the State of North Carolina and FEMA in its FIS dated November 17, 2017 for Orange County and associated DFIRM panels, including any digital data developed as part of the FIS, which are adopted by reference and declared a part of this ordinance. Future revisions to the FIS and DFIRM panels that do not change flood hazard data within the jurisdictional authority of Orange County are also adopted by reference and declared a part of this ordinance. Subsequent Letter of Map Revisions (LOMRs) and/or Physical Map Revisions (PMRs) shall be adopted within 3 months. For reference, previous SFHA data was 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-CWG (C) dated May 16, 2008, which with accompanying supporting data, including Letters of Map Amendment or Revision and Summary of Map Amendments, were adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this Ordinance as part of the Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay District, which was eliminated with the adoption of the November 17, 2017 FIS.5and (D) This ordinance in part comes forward by re-enactment of some of the provisions of the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance enacted XXXXXX as amended, and it is not the intention to repeal but rather to re-enact and continue to enforce without interruption of such existing provisions, so that all rights and liabilities that have accrued thereunder are reserved and may be enforced. The enactment of this ordinance shall not affect any action, suit or proceeding instituted or pending. All provisions of the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance of Orange County enacted on XXXXXXXX, as amended, which are not reenacted herein are repealed. (C)(E) The Board of Adjustment as established by Orange County shall hear and decide requests for variances from flood damage prevention regulations as detailed in Section 2.10.4 of this Ordinancethe requirements of the Orange County Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay Zoning District.6 1.1.4 Purpose and Intent (A) In order to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the County and its residents, this Ordinance is hereby adopted by the Orange County Board of Commissioners. (B) The purpose of the regulations set out in this Ordinance shall be to accomplish compatible development of the land within Orange County in a manner which will best promote the health, safety, and general welfare, as well as to: (1) Provide for efficiency and economy in the process of development; 5 The blue underlined text was originally located in Section 4.3.5 of the UDO as part of the Special Flood Hazard Area overlay district. Red underlined text is new text proposed to reference past FIS studies, which served as the basis for the overlay district now deleted as part of this process. 6 Staff is recommending the deletion of the Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay District. The rationale for this recommendation is to avoid unnecessary delay in the adoption/codification of future Federal Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) data by eliminating the need to complete a Zoning Atlas amendment to change the boundaries of the aforementioned overlay district. Formatte 27