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[(-0~] "Mean sea level" means, for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Progam, the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced. "Minimum necessary" related to article 5, variances, of this chapter means the minimum necessary to afford relief to the applicant of a variance with a minimum deviation ftom the requirements of this chapter. In the case of variances to an elevation requirement, this means the director of public works need not gant permission for the applicant to build at Bade, for example, or even to whatever elevation the applicant proposes, but only that level that the director of public works believes will both provide relief and preserve the integity of this chapter. ~f~] "Obstruction" includes but is not limited to any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, protection, excavation, channelization, bridge, conduit, culvert, building, wire, fence, rock, gavel, refuse, fill, structure, vegetation, or other material in, along, across, or projecting into any watercourse which may alter, impede, retard, or change the direction and/or velocity of the flow of water, or due to its location, its propensity to snare or collect debris carried by the flow of water or its likelihood of being carried downstream. "Ghana dwelline" means a second dwelling unit permitted to be built as a separate or an attached unit on a building site, but does not include a euest house or a farm dwelline. [(48~] "One-hundred-year flood" means a flood which has a one percent annual probability of being [eq~lled-} equaled or exceeded. It is [~et~isal--te] also called the "base flood." [f44j] "One-hundred-year floodplain" means any area of land susceptible to being inundated by water ftom any source generated by the one-hundred-year flood. [(~Aj] "Primary frontal dune" means a continuous or nearly continuous mound or ridge of sand with relatively steep seaward and landward slopes immediately landward and adjacent to the beach and subject to erosion and overtopping from high tides and waves during major coastal storms. The inland limit of the primary frontal dune occurs at the point where there is a distinct change from a relatively mild slope. "Principal structure" means a structure used for the principal use of the property as distinguished from an accessory use. 11