Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Freeboard above base flood elevation2 ft
The City of Franklin requires BFE plus twenty-four inches of freeboard.
- Maximum increase in water surface elevation in floodway1 ft
must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot at any point within the community.
- Repetitive loss definition
incurred flood-related damages on two occasions in a 10-year period, in which the cost of the repair, on the average, equalled or exceeded 25 percent of the market value of the structure at the time of each such flood event
- Severe repetitive loss definition
4 or more separate claims payments ... exceeding $5,000 ... cumulative amount ... exceeding $20,000; or ... at least 2 separate claims payments ... cumulative amount ... exceeding the market value
- Substantial damage threshold50 pct
the cost of restoring the structure to its before damaged condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
- Substantial improvement threshold50 pct
the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement.
From the ordinance
The City of Franklin requires BFE plus twenty-four inches of freeboard.