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<br /> flood elevation are subject during all those years to increased risk of damage from <br /> <br /> floods, while future owners of the [prepeeEg] structure(s) and the community as a <br /> <br /> whole are subject to all the costs, inconvenience, danger, and suffering that those <br /> increased flood damages bring. In addition, future owners may purchase the <br /> [~eperty] structure(s), unaware that it is subject to potential flood damage, and <br /> the structure(s) can be insured only at very high flood insurance rates. <br /> [(31-)] "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 /> [(~j] "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 /> facilities, but does not include long-term storage or related manufacturing <br /> facilities. <br /> [(33~] "General floodplain" -See "Zone A." <br /> [(~4~] "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 disabilities, <br /> personal preferences, or the disapproval of one's neighbors likewise cannot, as a <br /> rule, qualify as exceptional hardships. All of these problems can be resolved <br /> through other means, without granting a variance. This is so even if the alternative <br /> means are more expensive or complicated than building with a variance, or if they <br /> require the property owner to put the parcel to a different use than originally <br /> intended, or to build elsewhere. <br /> [(3-5j] "Highest adjacent grade" means the highest natural elevation of the <br /> ground surface prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure. <br /> [(3~] "Historic structure" means any structure that is: <br /> ~ [fisted] Listed individually in the National Register of Historic <br /> Places (a listing maintained by the Department of Interior) or <br /> preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as <br /> meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National <br /> Register; <br /> [(->~j] ~ [serti€~ed] Certified or preliminarily determined by the <br /> Secretary of the Interior as contributing to the historical <br /> significance of a registered historic district or a district <br /> preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior to <br /> qualify as a registered historic district; <br /> ~ [individually] Individually listed on a State of Hawaii <br /> inventory of historic places[;] where the historic preservation <br /> program has been approved by the Secretary of the Interior or <br /> 7 <br /> <br />