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2/16/1987
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Board of Commissioners
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, <br /> <br /> FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE <br /> <br /> ARTICLE 1. STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION, FINDINGS OF FACT, <br /> PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES. <br /> <br /> SECTION A. STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION <br /> <br /> The legislature of the State of North Carolina has in <br /> Chapter t53A-121 of N. C. General Statues, delegated the <br /> responsibility to local governmental units to adopt <br /> regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, <br /> and general welfare of its citizenry, Therefore, the County <br /> Commissioners of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, do ordain <br /> as follows= <br /> <br /> SECTION B. FINDINGS OF FACT. <br /> <br /> 1. The flood hazard areas of Cabarrus County are <br /> subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life <br /> and property, health and safety hazards, disruption of <br /> commerce end governmental services, end extraordinary public <br /> expenditures for flood protection end relief, end impairment <br /> of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public <br /> health, safety, and general welfare. <br /> 2. These flood losses are caused by the cumulative <br /> effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in <br /> flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood <br /> hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous <br /> to other lands which ere inadequately elevated, <br /> ~loodproofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages. <br /> <br /> SECTION C. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. <br /> <br /> It is the purpose of this ordinance to promote the public <br /> health, safety and general welfare and to minimize public <br /> and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas <br /> by provisions designed to: <br /> <br /> 1. Restrict and prohibit uses which are dangerous to <br /> health, safety and property due to water or erosion or in <br /> flood heights or velocities; <br /> 2. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including <br /> facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood <br /> damage at the time of initial construction; <br /> 3. Control the alteration of natural floodplains, <br /> stream channels, and natural protective barriers which are <br /> involved tn the accommodation of flood waters; <br /> 4. Control filling, grading, dredging end other <br /> development which may increase erosion or flood damage, ends <br /> 5. Prevent or regulate the construction of flood <br /> barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which <br /> may increase flood hazards to other lands. <br /> <br /> 1 <br /> <br /> <br />
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