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<br />Area of special, flood hazard, ~ •
<br />,see "Special Flood Hazard Area
<br />(SFHA) "
<br />Base flood means the flood having a one (1 %) percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any
<br />given yeaz.
<br />Base flood elevation (BFE) means a determination as published in the Flood Insurance Study of
<br />the water sm face elevations of the base flood.
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<br />Basement means any area of the building having its floor sub grade (below ground level) on all
<br />sides.
<br />Building »
<br />see °Sh-uctur°e".
<br />Chemical storage facility means a building, portion of a building, or exterior azea adjacent to a
<br />building used for the storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products, (~)
<br />Development means any n~an-rr}ade consh•ucted change to improved or unimproved real estate,
<br />including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving,
<br />excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials Removed old terms no
<br />Disposal defined as in NCGS 1.30A-290(a)(6). longer used,
<br />Elevated Building means anon-basement building, (`~~~" ^° __
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<br />~,-_•_ _ _ r___,~._._ .~_ . _,..,,.., .., o.,+ „f fl,,,,a ..•.«~.~ which has its reference level raised
<br />above ground level by,foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers, pilings, or colmzzns with openings
<br />sufficient to facilitate automatic egualizatiorz of hydrostatic flood forces on exterior walls by allowing
<br />enhy and exit of floodwaters and the unimpeded movement of floodwaters.
<br />(3) Encroachrzzerzt memzs the advance or infi•irzgenzent of uses, f ll, excavation, buildings, pernzmzwzt
<br />structures or development into a floodplain, which may impede or alter the ,flow capacity of a
<br />floodplain.
<br />Existing Corzsu•uction rrzearzs sh•zzctzu•es for° which dze "start of consh•uctiorz" cornmerzced befa•e
<br />March 16, 1981. This term may also be refer°red to as "existing structures. "
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