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<br /> the area within a community subject to a "special flood hazard" and the extent of <br /> the depths of associated flooding. Such a system typically includes hurricane tidal <br /> barriers, dams, reservoirs, levees, or dikes. These specialized flood modifying <br /> works are those constructed to conform with sound engineering standards. <br /> [(~j] "Floodproofing" means any combination of structural and nonstructural <br /> additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood <br /> damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, <br /> structures, and their contents. <br /> [(~8j] "Floodway" or "regulatory floodway" means the channel of a river or <br /> other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to <br /> «o <br /> discharge the base flood[ ' ' " <br /> [(~9j] "Floodway fringe" is the areas of a floodplain on either side of the <br /> designated floodway where encroachment may be permitted. <br /> [(39j] "Fraud and victimization" related to article 5, variances, of this chapter <br /> means that the variance granted must not cause fraud on or victimization of the <br /> public. In examining this requirement, the director of public works will consider <br /> the fact that every newly constructed building adds to government responsibilities <br /> and remains a part of the community for fifty to one hundred years. Buildings that <br /> are permitted to be constructed below the base flood elevation are subject during <br /> all those years to increased risk of damage from floods, while future owners of the <br /> property and the community as a whole are subject to all the costs, inconvenience, <br /> danger, and suffering that those increased flood damages bring. In addition, future <br /> owners may purchase the property, unaware that it is subject to potential flood <br /> damage, and the ro ert can be insured only at very high flood insurance rates. <br /> [(31-j] "Freeboard" means a factor of safety usually expressed in feet above a <br /> flood level for purposes of floodplain management. "Freeboard" tends to <br /> compensate for the many unknown factors that could contribute to flood heights <br /> greater than the height calculated for a selected size flood and floodway <br /> conditions, such as wave action, bridge openings, and the hydrological effect of <br /> urbanization of the watershed. <br /> [(3~] "Functionally dependent use" means a use which cannot perform its <br /> intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water. <br /> The term includes only docking facilities, port facilities that are necessary for the <br /> loading and unloading of cargo or passengers, and [°'-~~-ouildi ng] shipbuildine <br /> and ship repair facilities, but does not include long-term storage or related <br /> manufacturing facilities. <br /> [(33~] "General floodplain" -See "Zone A." <br /> [(34j] "Hardship" as related to article 5, variances, of this chapter means the <br /> hardship that would result from a failure to grant the requested variance. The <br /> director of public works requires that the variance be exceptional, unusual, and <br /> peculiar to the property involved. Mere economic or financial hardship alone is <br /> not exceptional. Inconvenience, aesthetic considerations, physical handicaps, <br /> 9 <br /> <br />