CHAPTER 9. BUILDINGS.*
Sec. 9-51.3. Methods of reducing flood losses.
In order to accomplish its purposes, this article includes
methods and provisions for:
(a) Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to
health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in
damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
(b) Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including
facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time
of initial construction;
(c) Controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream
channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel
flood waters;
(d) Controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other
development which may increase flood damage; and,
(e) Preventing or regulating the construction of flood
barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood
hazards in other areas. (Ord. No. 1835 (NCS), § 1.)