AG 2007 10 15 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE Non-Coastal Regular Phase ARTICLE L STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION, FINDINGS OF FACT, PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES. SECTION A. STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION. Municipal The Legislature of the State of North Carolina has in Part 6, Article 2l of Chapter 143; Parts 3, 5, and 8 of Article l9 of Chapter 160A; and Article 8 of Chapter 160A of the North Carolina General S[a[u[es, delegated to local governmental units the responsibility to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfaze. County: The Legislarure of the State of North Carolina has in Part 6, Article 2l of Chapter 143; Parts 3 and 4 of Article 18 of Chapter 153A; and Part 121, Article 6 of Chapter 153A of the North Carolina General Statutes, delegated to focal governmental units the responsibility to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfaze. Therefore, the (governing body) of (community), North Cazolina, does ordain as follows: SECTION B. FINDINGS OF FACT. (I) The flood prone aeeas within the jurisdiction of (community) are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare. (2) These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities and by [he occupancy in flood prone areas of uses vulnerable to floods or other hazards. SECTION C. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. [t is the purpose of this ordinance to promote public health, safety, and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions within flood prone areas by provisions designed to: (I) restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards or that result in damaging increases in erosion, flood heights or velocities; (2) require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities that serve such uses, be protected against flood damage a[ the time of initial construction; (3) control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and narural protective barriers, which are involved in the accommodation of floodwaters; (T) control filling, grading, dredging, and all other development that may increase erosion or flood damage; and (~) prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers that will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other lands. SECTION D. OBJECTIVES. The objectives of this ordinance are to: (I) protect human life, safer, and health; (2j minimize expendinire of public money for costly Flood control projects: July 3._-007 F'-~y