The Board of Trustees of the Village of Rye
Brook finds that the potential and/or actual damages from flooding
and erosion may be a problem to the residents of the Village of Rye
Brook and that such damages may include destruction or loss of private
and public housing, damage to public facilities, both publicly and
privately owned, and injury to and loss of human life. In order to
minimize the threat of such damages and to achieve the purposes and
objectives hereinafter set forth, this chapter is adopted.
The purpose of this chapter is to amend Local
Law No. 4-1989 by repealing same and replacing it with this chapter.
It is also the purpose of this chapter to promote the public health,
safety and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses
due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to:
A. Regulate uses which are dangerous to health, safety
and property due to water or erosion hazards or which result in damaging
increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities.
B. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including
facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage
at the time of initial construction.
C. Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream
channels and natural protective barriers which are involved in the
accommodation of floodwaters.
D. Control filling, grading, dredging and other development
which may increase erosion or flood damages.
E. Regulate the construction of flood barriers which
will unnaturally divert floodwaters or which may increase flood hazards
to other lands.
F. Qualify for and maintain participation in the National
Flood Insurance Program.
The objectives of this chapter are to:
A. Protect human life and health.
B. Minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood
control projects.
C. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated
with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general
public.
D. Minimize prolonged business interruptions.
E. Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities
such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines,
streets and bridges located in areas of special flood hazard.
F. Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the
sound use and development of areas of special flood hazard so as to
minimize future flood blight areas.
G. Provide that developers are notified that property
is in an area of special flood hazard.
H. Ensure that those who occupy the areas of special
flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions.
I. Minimize damage to private property located in areas
of special flood hazard.