Chapter 8 FLOODPLAIN REGULATIONS*

Section 8-2 Findings of fact.

    (a)    The flood hazard areas of the city 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 for flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base,  all of which adversely affect the public health, safety, and general welfare.

    (b)    These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains  causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood hazard areas by  uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to other lands which are inadequately elevated,  floodproofed, or otherwise protected from flood damages.

(Ord. of 6-22-87)