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CABARRUS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE CHAPTER 16-FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION________________________________ (6) Minimize damage to private and public property due to flooding; (7) Make flood insurance available to the community through the National Flood Insurance Program; (8) Maintain the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains; (9) Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood prone areas; and (10) Ensure that potential buyers are aware that property is in a Special Flood Hazard Area. PART 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 it’s most reasonable application. Accessory Structure (Appurtenant Structure) means a structure located on the same parcel of property 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 parcel as the farm dwelling or shop building. Addition (to an existing building) means an extension or increase in the floor area or height of a building or structure. Alteration of a watercourse means a dam, impoundment, channel relocation, change in channel alignment, channelization, or change in cross-sectional area of the channel or the channel capacity, or any other form of modification which may alter, impede, retard or change the direction and/or velocity of the riverine flow of water during conditions of the base flood. Appeal means a request for a review of the Floodplain Administrator's interpretation of any provision of this ordinance. Area of Shallow Flooding means a designated Zone AO or AH 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). Area of Future-Conditions Flood Hazard means the land area that would be inundated by the 1-percent-annual- chance (100- year) flood based on future-conditions hydrology. Base Flood means the flood having a one (1) percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. Base Flood Elevation (BFE) 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. Basement means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides. Page 2 of 28 2021 NC Model Ordinance, Non-Coastal Amended