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"Floodplain management" means the operation of an overall program of <br /> corrective and preventive measures for reducing flood damage, including but not <br /> limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood control works and floodplain <br /> management regulations. <br /> "Floodplain management regulations" means zoning ordinances, <br /> subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations, and special purpose <br /> ordinances. <br /> "Flood protection system" means those physical structural works for <br /> which funds have been authorized, appropriated, and expended and which have <br /> been constructed specifically to modify flooding in order to reduce the extent of <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 /> "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 /> discharge the base flood[°^"~..' n~~rh~~~ntivnly ~r~nvunn~v~~ 4~u ~~rnhu« mwFnne <br /> u~u rnti nn m e 4Hnr~ n u ~n4] <br /> [(~9j] "Floodway fringe" is the areas of a floodplain on either side of the <br /> designated floodway where encroachment may be permitted. <br /> [(3Aj] "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 /> <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 can be insured only at very high flood insurance rates. <br /> [(3-I~] "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 ship building and ship repair <br /> 6 <br /> <br />