Sec. 34-455
Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Applies near
- Flood Insurance Rate Map
- Geographic extent
- Flood hazard areas as delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM)
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Floodplain
- Base flood elevation when no data available2 ft
Specify that the base flood elevation is two feet above the highest adjacent grade at the location of the development, provided there is no evidence indicating flood depths have been or may be greater than two feet.
- Floodway encroachment analysis0 ft
A floodway encroachment analysis that demonstrates that the encroachment of the proposed development will not cause any increase in base flood elevations.
- Maximum base flood elevation increase in riverine areas without floodways1 ft
Hydrologic and hydraulic analyses that demonstrate that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated flood hazard area encroachments, will not increase the base flood elevation more than one foot at any point within the community.
- Watercourse alteration flood-carrying capacity
An engineering analysis ... demonstrates that the flood-carrying capacity of the altered or relocated portion of the watercourse will not be decreased.
From the ordinance
The site plan or construction documents for any development subject to the requirements of this article shall be drawn to scale and shall include, as applicable to the proposed development: ...