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[(-1 j] "Accessory use" means a use which is incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the parcel of land on which it is located. "Appeal" means a request for a review of the floodplain administrator's interpretation of any provision of this chapter or denial of a request for a variance. {{3~] "Area of shallow tlooding" means a designated AO or AH zone on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The base tood depths range from one to three feet; a clearly defined channel does not exist; the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate; and velocity flow may be evident. Such tlooding is characterized by ponding or sheet flow. [(4}] "Backtill" means the placement of fill material within a specified depression, hole or excavation pit below the surrounding adjacent ground level as a means of improving [deed-water] tloodwater conveyance or to restore the land to the natural contours existing prior to excavation. {{3~] "Base flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being [eq] equaled or exceeded in any given year (also called the "one-hundred- year tood"). "Base tood elevation" means the water surface elevation of the base tood. "Basement" means any area of the building having its floor subgrade (below ground level) on all sides. "Breakaway walls" are any type of walls, whether solid or lattice, and whether constructed of concrete, masonry, wood, metal, plastic or any other suitable building material which is not part of the structural support of the building and which is designed to break away under abnormally high tides or wave action without causing any damage to the structural integrity of the building on which they are used or any buildings to which they might be carried by [Head water] floodwaters. A breakaway wall shall have a safe design loading resistance of not less than ten and no more than twenty pounds per square toot. Use of breakaway walls must be certified by a [registered] licensed structural engineer or architect and shall meet the following conditions: ~ [1~ealEaway] Breakaway wall collapse shall result from a water load less than that which would occur during the base tood; and [(-I~] ~ [tie] The elevated portion of the building shall not incur any structural damage due to the effects of wind and water loads acting simultaneously in the event of the base flood. "Buffer zones" are areas bordering and within 50 feet of special flood hazard areas with base flood elevations, depth numbers specified in feet on the FIRM or other areas that have been studied and identified with base flood elevations or depth numbers. "Coastal high hazard area" -See "Zone V" and "Zone VE." ~4:....~ c ~4...-eaa> ~ 4omnl Rnd r~u~i~ ~~~f;~w~~~ ....4 ~F~ n~~~ ci,ricer,-rcm~zro--iro°a:rs-a;~v. ,.y 4~.a4~~.a n .n4o.« X41. n..4 .a.l,~rr, 4r~o Fl~~~ .a.i~4u~~aaaaa .~«.a. ~.~~a 41a~.a«4~«~ FaIOTCTT[O[I-.7~.7TGTT1, ~TILGITITT-[[OOQ~J~OfGVa,v„ Yana „avv v~ ,.av ~..,.aa~ rn4..«. ..~a ~u r acau~] "Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, 4