Section 72-34.3 C(1)(a)[1]
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Areas within the floodway as delineated on FIRM, capable of carrying 1% annual chance flood without increasing water surface elevation more than 1 foot.
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure size limit600 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Accessory structures in the SFHA shall be limited to no more than 600 square feet in total floor area.
- Anchoring
New construction and substantial improvements shall be anchored to prevent flotation, collapse, or lateral movement.
- Compliance with flood hazard reduction
All new construction and substantial improvements shall comply with all applicable flood hazard reduction provisions of Subsection D.
- Flood-resistant materials
New construction and substantial improvements shall be constructed with materials and utility equipment resistant to flood damage.
The placement of manufactured homes (mobile homes) is prohibited, except in an existing manufactured home park or subdivision.
- No encroachment without analysis
No encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development permitted unless demonstrated no increase in flood levels.
From the ordinance
Within any floodway area, no encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements, or other development shall be permitted unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analysis... that the proposed encroachment will not result in any increase in flood levels...