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D. Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance <br />1. North Carolina General Statutes empower counties to regulate designated floodways <br />for the purpose of controlling and minimizing the extent of floods by preventing <br />obstructions which inhibit water flow and increase flood height and damage and other <br />losses (both public and private) in flood hazard areas, and to promote the public health, <br />safety and welfare of citizens of North Carolina in flood hazard areas. <br />2. No permit is required for certain uses, including agricultural, wildlife and related uses; <br />ground level area uses such as parking areas, rotary aircraft ports; lawns, gardens, golf <br />courses, tennis courts, parks, open space, and similar private and public recreational uses. <br />Existing artificial obstructions in the floodway may not be enlarged or replaced without a <br />permit. Local governments are empowered to acquire existing obstructions by purchase, <br />exchange, or condemnation, if necessary, to avoid flood damages. <br />3. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is administered by the Federal <br />Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This program makes flood insurance <br />available to a local community which, in exchange, agrees to adopt and enforce a flood <br />Annex D Evaluation of County Policy D -5 December 2009 <br />and Ordinances <br />Attachment number 13 <br />F -6 Page 153 <br />- Require adequate and <br />functional drainage <br />improvements, <br />maintenance guarantees, <br />and other related measures <br />in new developments. <br />- Establish a perpetual <br />maintenance program for <br />minor drainage systems in <br />new and existing <br />subdivisions. <br />Protect significant <br />- Incorporate a <br />natural features such as <br />conservation district and/ <br />the Rocky River, Coddle <br />or buffer zone within the <br />Creek, and Buffalo <br />zoning ordinance. <br />Creek from the adverse <br />- Develop a greenway <br />effects of inappropriate <br />plan for the county. <br />development. <br />- Require that new <br />development consider the <br />natural vegetative, <br />drainage, and topographic <br />conditions of the land. <br />- Watershed Improvement <br />Commission now in place <br />Protect existing natural <br />wildlife habitat and <br />migration corridors from <br />habitat fragmentation. <br />D. Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance <br />1. North Carolina General Statutes empower counties to regulate designated floodways <br />for the purpose of controlling and minimizing the extent of floods by preventing <br />obstructions which inhibit water flow and increase flood height and damage and other <br />losses (both public and private) in flood hazard areas, and to promote the public health, <br />safety and welfare of citizens of North Carolina in flood hazard areas. <br />2. No permit is required for certain uses, including agricultural, wildlife and related uses; <br />ground level area uses such as parking areas, rotary aircraft ports; lawns, gardens, golf <br />courses, tennis courts, parks, open space, and similar private and public recreational uses. <br />Existing artificial obstructions in the floodway may not be enlarged or replaced without a <br />permit. Local governments are empowered to acquire existing obstructions by purchase, <br />exchange, or condemnation, if necessary, to avoid flood damages. <br />3. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is administered by the Federal <br />Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This program makes flood insurance <br />available to a local community which, in exchange, agrees to adopt and enforce a flood <br />Annex D Evaluation of County Policy D -5 December 2009 <br />and Ordinances <br />Attachment number 13 <br />F -6 Page 153 <br />