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CABARRUS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE <br />CHAPTER 16-FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION________________________________ <br />(6) Minimize damage to private and public property due to flooding; <br /> <br />(7) Make flood insurance available to the community through the National Flood Insurance Program; <br /> <br />(8) Maintain the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains; <br /> <br />(9) Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood prone areas; and <br /> <br />(10) Ensure that potential buyers are aware that property is in a Special Flood Hazard Area. <br /> <br />PART 2. DEFINITIONS <br />Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this ordinance shall be interpreted so as to give them <br />the meaning they have in common usage and to give this ordinance it’s most reasonable application. <br /> <br />Accessory Structure (Appurtenant Structure) means a structure located on the same parcel of property as the <br />principal structure and the use of which is incidental to the use of the principal structure. Garages, carports and <br />storage sheds are common urban accessory structures. Pole barns, hay sheds and the like qualify as accessory <br />structures on farms, and may or may not be located on the same parcel as the farm dwelling or shop building. <br />Addition (to an existing building) means an extension or increase in the floor area or height of a building or structure. <br />Alteration of a watercourse means a dam, impoundment, channel relocation, change in channel alignment, <br />channelization, or change in cross-sectional area of the channel or the channel capacity, or any other form of <br />modification which may alter, impede, retard or change the direction and/or velocity of the riverine flow of water <br />during conditions of the base flood. <br />Appeal means a request for a review of the Floodplain Administrator's interpretation of any provision of this <br />ordinance. <br />Area of Shallow Flooding means a designated Zone AO or AH on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) <br />with base flood depths determined to be from one (1) to three (3) feet. These areas are located where a clearly <br />defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate, and where velocity <br />flow may be evident. <br />Area of Special Flood Hazard see Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA). <br />Area of Future-Conditions Flood Hazard means the land area that would be inundated by the 1-percent-annual- <br />chance (100- year) flood based on future-conditions hydrology. <br />Base Flood means the flood having a one (1) percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. <br />Base Flood Elevation (BFE) means a determination of the water surface elevations of the base flood as published in <br />the Flood Insurance Study. When the BFE has not been provided in a Special Flood Hazard Area, it may be obtained <br />from engineering studies available from a Federal, State, or other source using FEMA approved engineering <br />methodologies. This elevation, when combined with the Freeboard, establishes the Regulatory Flood Protection <br />Elevation. <br />Basement means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides. <br />Page 2 of 28 <br />2021 NC Model Ordinance, Non-Coastal Amended <br /> <br />