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Maintain and establish appropriate vegetative cover in hich rainfall, sediment, and debris <br /> <br /> producinc azeas to reduce surface run-off in the watershed, decrease the risk of watercourse <br /> obstruction, and ocean pollution. <br /> (h) Maintain and re-establish forest cover in mauka areas to improve the capacity of the Ground <br /> <br /> to absorb heavy rainfall and to recharce aquifers. <br /> (i) Establish and maintain floodplains as open space, pazks, greenwavs, and endangered species <br /> habitat and flywa}_s. <br /> (i) Implement a Flood Plain Manacement Program that shall comply with section 5 of the <br /> Hawaii County General Plan. <br /> SECTION 4. Chapter 27, article 2, section 27-5, Hawaii County Code 1983 (2005 <br /> edition), as amended, is amended to read as follows: <br /> Section 27-5. Applicability. <br /> (a) This chapter shall apply to all areas of special flood hazards identified by <br /> the Federal Insurance Administration in a scientific and engineering report <br /> entitled "Flood Insurance Study," dated [T•~'° April 2, 2004, <br /> with accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps and all [suHsegaent] <br /> future chances, revisions and amendments[,] to these documents, and shall <br /> apply to all areas outside the identified special flood hazazd azeas <br /> encompassing and adjacent to a river, stream, stormwater channel, outfall <br /> area, or other inland water or drainage facility determined by the director <br /> of public works to be subject to flood hazards. The special flood hazazd <br /> areas are as follows: <br /> (1) Floodway fringe -Zones AE, AH, and AO. <br /> (2) Floodway. <br /> (3) Coastal high hazard (tsunami) - Zones V and VE. <br /> (4) General floodplain -Zone A. <br /> (5) Land adjacent to drainage facilities, and Zone A99. <br /> (b) This chapter shall not apply to: <br /> (1) Any building permit lawfully issued prior to May 5, 1982 or <br /> building permit application properly filed and accepted for review <br /> prior to May 5, 1982, provided that approval was obtained without <br /> any significant changes in plans or specifications made after <br /> May 5, 1982. <br /> (2) Roadway and site improvements for subdivisions for which <br /> tentative approval had been granted prior to May 5, 1982 and <br /> where roadway and site improvement construction and grading <br /> plans had received all necessazy agency approvals by May 5, 1982. <br /> (3) Carnivals, luaus, fairs, and camping tents of a temporary nature <br /> which are not in a floodway. <br /> (4) Nonfenced, nonelevated outdoor swimming pools. <br /> 4 <br /> <br />