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28 <br /> Regulatory flood protection elevation <br /> The Base Flood Elevation plus the Freeboard establishes this elevation. In Special Flood Hazard Areas <br /> where Base Flood Elevations have been determined, this elevation shall be the Base Flood Elevation <br /> plus two feet of freeboard. In Special Flood Hazard Areas where no BFE has been established, this <br /> elevation shall be at two feet above the highest adjacent grade. Regulatory flood protection elevation is <br /> interchangeable with "design floods". <br /> Remedy a violation <br /> To bring the structure or other development into compliance with State and Orange County laws and <br /> regulations. In terms of compliance with Orange County floodplain management regulations, the term <br /> shall also include reduction of the impacts of a development's noncompliance including protecting the <br /> structure or other affected development from flood damages, implementing the enforcement provisions of <br /> the ordinance or otherwise deterring future similar violations, or reducing federal financial exposure with <br /> regard to the structure or other development. <br /> Repetitive loss <br /> Flood-related damages sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during any ten year period for <br /> which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event, on the average, equals or exceeds 25% of <br /> the market value, or the tax value in the absence of recent comparative sales, of the structure before the <br /> damage occurred. <br /> Research Facility With Manufacturing <br /> An enclosed structure which accommodates research and research applications as well as related light <br /> industrial uses. Facilities may include laboratories, offices, other facilities for research and development, <br /> and production facilities. <br /> Research Facility Without Manufacturing <br /> An enclosed structure which accommodates research and research applications. Facilities may include <br /> laboratories, offices, and other facilities for research and development, as well as prototype production <br /> facilities for product creation. Prototype production shall be limited in scale to that necessary to fully <br /> analyze the merits of the product <br /> Reservoir, Class I <br /> A body of water, such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water <br /> supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped directly to a treatment plant or to a small <br /> intervening storage basin and thence to a treatment plant. <br /> Reservoir, Class II <br /> A body of water, such as a pond or lake, confined by a dam or other barrier to be used for public water <br /> supply from which water flows by gravity or is pumped to a Class I reservoir prior to final entrance to a <br /> water treatment plant. <br /> Residential Development <br /> Buildings for residential use such as attached and detached single family dwellings, apartment <br /> complexes, condominiums, townhouses, cottages, and their associated outbuildings such as garages, <br /> storage buildings, and gazebos. <br /> Residential Floor Area <br /> The sum of areas for residential use on all floors of the building measured from the outside faces of the <br /> exterior walls, including halls, lobbies, stairways, elevator shafts, enclosed porches and balconies, and <br /> below-grade floor areas used for habitation and residential access. <br /> Not countable as floor area are: <br /> a) Open terraces, patios, atriums, or balconies <br /> b) Carports, garages, breezeways, toolsheds <br /> c) Special-purpose areas for common use of occupants, such as recreation rooms of social halls <br /> d) Staff space for therapy or examination in care housing <br /> e) Basement space not used for living accommodations <br />