Federal, State, or other source using FEMA approved engineering methodologies. This elevation,
<br />when combined with the "Freeboard", establishes the "Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation".
<br />Basement means that lowest level or story which has its toor sub-grade on all sides.
<br />Basement means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground leveQ on all
<br />sides.
<br />Breakawcrv wall means a wall that is not part of the structural support of the building and is
<br />intended through its design and construction to collapse under specific lateral loading forces
<br />without causing damage to the elevated portion of the building or the supporting foundation
<br />system. A breakaway wall shall have a design safe loading resistance of not less than ten and
<br />no more than 20 pounds per square foot. A wall loading resistance of more than 20 pounds
<br />per square foot requires a professional engineer or architect's certificate.
<br />Building- See Structure means any structure built for support, shelter, or enclosure for any
<br />occupancy or storage.
<br />Chemical Storage Facility means a building, portion of a building, or exterior area adjacent
<br />to a building used for the storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products.
<br />Development means any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including,
<br />but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving,
<br />excavating, drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials.
<br />Disposal means, as defined in NCGS 130A-290(a)(6), the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping,
<br />spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that the solid waste
<br />or any constituent part of the solid waste may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or
<br />discharged into any waters, including groundwaters.
<br />Elevated building means anon-basement building:
<br />(1) Built, in the case of a building in Zones Al-A30, AE, A, A99, A0, AH, B, C, or X to have
<br />the top of the elevated floor above the ground by means of pilings, columns (posts and piers),
<br />shear walls parallel to the flow of water; and
<br />(2) Adequately anchored so as not to impair the structural integrity of the building during a
<br />flood up to the magnitude of the base flood. In the case of Zones Al-A30, AE, A, A99, A0,
<br />AH, B, C, and X, "elevated building" also includes a building elevated by means of fill or
<br />solid foundations perimeter walls with openings sufficient to facilitate the unimpeded
<br />movement of flood waters.
<br />Encroachment means the advance or infringement of uses, fill, excavation, buildings, structures
<br />or development into a floodplain, which may impede or alter the flow capacity of a floodplain.
<br />Existing manufactured home park or manufactured home subdivision means a manufactured
<br />home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on
<br />which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of
<br />utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete
<br />pads) is completed before February 16, 1987 was completed before the initial effective date
<br />of the floodplain management regulations adopted by this community.
<br />Expansion to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision means the preparation of
<br />the additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the
<br />manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the construction
<br />of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete slabs).
<br />Flood or flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation
<br />of normally dry land areas from:
<br />(1) The overflow of inland or tidal waters;
<br />(2) The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.
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