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FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT § 27-12
<br />"Manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in one or more sections,
<br />which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a
<br />permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured
<br />home" includes a "mobile home" but does not include a "recreational vehicle."
<br />"Manufactured home park or subdivision" means a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of
<br />land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
<br />"Market value." For the purposes of determining substantial improvement, market
<br />value pertains only to the structure in question. It does not pertain to the land,
<br />landscaping, or detached accessory structures on the property. For determining
<br />substantial improvement, the value of the land must always be subtracted. Acceptable
<br />estimates of market value can be obtained from the following sources:
<br />(1) Independent appraisals by a professional appraiser licensed by the State.
<br />(2) Property appraisals used for tax assessment purposes by the County
<br />department of finance, real property tax office.
<br />(3) The value of buildings taken from National Flood Insurance Program claims
<br />data. This value shall be used as a screening tool to identify those structures
<br />where the substantial improvement ratio is less than forty percent or greater
<br />than sixty percent.
<br />"Mean sea level" means, for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, the
<br />National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood
<br />elevations shown on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced.
<br />"Minimum necessary" related to article 5, variances, of this chapter means the
<br />minimum necessary to afford relief to the applicant of a variance with a minimum
<br />deviation from the requirements of this chapter. In the case of variances to an elevation
<br />requirement, this means the director of public works need not grant permission for the
<br />applicant to build at grade, for example, or even to whatever elevation the applicant
<br />proposes, but only that level that the director of public works believes will both provide
<br />relief and preserve the integrity of this chapter.
<br />"New construction" for floodplain management purposes, means structures for
<br />which the "start of construction" commenced on or after May 5, 1982, and includes any
<br />subsequent improvements to such structures.
<br />"New manufactured home park or subdivision" means a manufactured home park
<br />or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the
<br />manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of
<br />utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of
<br />concrete pads) is completed on or after May 5, 1982.
<br />"Obstruction" includes but is not limited to any dam, wall, wharf, embankment,
<br />levee, dike, pile, abutment, protection, excavation, channelization, bridge, conduit,
<br />culvert, building, wire, fence, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure, vegetation, or other
<br />material in, along, across, or projecting into any watercourse which may alter, impede,
<br />retard, or change the direction and/or velocity of the flow of water, or due to its location,
<br />its propensity to snare or collect debris carried by the flow of water or its likelihood of
<br />being carried downstream.
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