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(3) minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public; (4) minimize prolonged business losses and interruptions; (5) minimize damage to public facilities and utilities (i.e. water and gas mains, electric, telephone, cable and sewer lines, streets, and bridges) that ar9 located in flood prone areas; (6) help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood prone areas; and (7) ensure that potential buyersare aware that property is in a Special Flood Hazard Area. ARTICLE 2. DEFINITIONS. Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this ordinance shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in common usage and to give this ordinance its most reasonable application. "Accessory Structure (Appurtenant Structurel" means a structure located on the same parcel of properly as the principal structure and the use of which is incidental to the use of the principal structure. Garages, carports and storage sheds are common urban accessory structures. Pole barns, hay sheds and the like qualify as accessory structures on farms, and may or may not be located on the same pajtcel as the farm dwelling or shop building. "Addition (to an existing buildine)" means an extension or increase in the floor area or height of a building or structure. "Appeal" means a request for a review of the Floodplain Administrator's interpretation of any provision of this ordinance. "Area of Shallow Floodine" means a designated Zone AO on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with base flood depths determined to be from one (1) to three (3) feet. These areas are located where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate, and where velocity flow may be evident. "Area of Special Flood Hazard" see "Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA)". "Basement" means any area of thee. building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides. "Base Flood" means the flood having a one (I) percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. '`Base Flood Elevation (BFEI" means a determination of the water surface elevations of the base flood as published in the Flood Insurance Study. When the BFE has not been provided in a "Special Flood Hazard Area", it may be obtained from engineering studies available from a Federal, State, or other source using FEMA approved engineering methodologies. This elevation, when combined with the "Freeboard", establishes the "Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation". "Buildino" see''Structure". '`Chemical Storaee Facility" meats a building, portion of a building, or exterior area adjacent to a building uszd for the storage of any chemical or chemically reactive products. "Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations, or storage of equipment or materials. "Disposal" means, as defined in'~NCGS 130A-290(a)(6), the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any solid waste into or on any land or water so that the solid waste or any constituent part of the solid waste may inter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including groundwaters. "Elevated Buildino" means a noh-basement building which has its lowest elevated floor raised above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, ports. piers, pilings, or columns. °Encroachment" means the advance or intringemen[ of ores, till/,-excavation, buildings, strucures or development in[o a July i,'_00' ~ ~ '-