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[(-g4~] "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 prepazedness plans, flood control works and floodplain
<br />management regulations.
<br />[(~3~] "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 />[(~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 />[(~8~] "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 />dischazge the base flood[-°~«,.,...« .......,.,,,«:..e,.. :..,._o....:..,. «,.~ ...,.«,_ ,,.._c ,.,.
<br />[(~9~] "Floodway fringe" is the areas of a floodplain on either side of the
<br />designated floodway where encroachment maybe permitted.
<br />[(3A~] "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 yeazs. Buildings that
<br />are permitted to be constructed below the base flood elevation are subject during
<br />all those yeazs 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 can be insured only at very high flood insurance rates.
<br />[(-31j] "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 fora 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 cazried 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
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