Specific definitions.
ACCESSORY USE OR STRUCTURE
A use or structure on the same lot with and of a nature customarily
incidental and subordinate to the principal use or structure.
BASEMENT
Any area of the building having its floor below ground level
on all sides.
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BUILDING
A combination of materials to form a permanent structure
having walls and a roof; included shall be all mobile homes and trailers
to be used for human habitation.
COMPLETELY DRY SPACE
A space which will remain totally dry during flooding; the
structure is designed and constructed to prevent the passage of water
and water vapor.
CONSTRUCTION
The construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, extension,
expansion, alteration or relocation of a building or structure, including
the placement of mobile homes.
DEVELOPMENT
Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to buildings or other structures, the placement
of mobile homes, streets and other paving, utilities, filling, grading,
excavation, mining, dredging or drilling operations and the subdivision
of land.
ESSENTIALLY DRY SPACE
A space which will remain dry during flooding, except for
the passage of some water vapor or minor seepage; the structure is
substantially impermeable to the passage of water.
FLOOD
A temporary inundation of normally dry land areas.
FLOODPLAIN
A relatively flat or low land area which is subject to partial
or complete inundation from an adjoining or nearby stream, river or
watercourse; and/or any area subject to the unusual and rapid accumulation
of surface waters from any source.
FLOODPROOFING
Any combination of structural and nonstructural additions,
changes or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood
damage to real estate or improved real property, water and sanitary
facilities, structures and their contents.
FLOODWAY
The designed area of a floodplain required to carry and discharge
flood waters of a given magnitude. For the purposes of this chapter,
the floodway shall be capable of accommodating a flood of the one-hundred-year
magnitude.
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HISTORIC STRUCTURE
Any structure that is:
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(1)
Listed individually in the National Register of Historic Places
(a listing maintained by the Department of Interior) or preliminarily
determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements
for individual listing on the National Register.
(2)
Certified or preliminary determined by the Secretary of the
Interior as contributing to the historical significance of a registered
historic district or a district preliminarily determined by the Secretary
to qualify as a registered historic district.
(3)
Individually listed on a state inventory of historic places
in states with historic preservation programs which have been approved
by the Secretary of the Interior; or
(4)
Individually listed on a local inventory of historic places
in communities with historic preservation programs that have been
certified either:
(a)
By an approved state program as determined by the Secretary
of the Interior; or
(b)
Directly by the Secretary of the Interior in states without
approved programs.
IDENTIFIED FLOODPLAIN AREA
A floodplain area specifically identified in this Article
as being inundated by the one-hundred-year flood; included would be
areas identified as Floodway (FW), Flood-Fringe (FF) and General Floodplain
(FA).
LAND DEVELOPMENT
(1)
The improvement of one lot or two or more contiguous
lots, tracts or parcels of land for any purpose involving a group
of two or more buildings or the division or allocation of land or
space between or among two or more existing or prospective occupants
by means of or for the purpose of streets, common areas, leasehold,
condominiums, building groups or other features.
LOWEST FLOOR
The lowest floor of the lowest fully enclosed area (including
basement). An unfinished, flood-resistant, partially enclosed area,
used solely for parking of vehicles, building access, and incidental
storage, in an area other than a basement area, is not considered
the lowest floor of a building, provided that such space is not designed
and built so that the structure is in violation of the applicable
nonelevation design requirements of this chapter.
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MINOR REPAIR
The replacement of existing work with equivalent materials
for the purpose of its routine maintenance and upkeep, but not including
the cutting away of any wall, partition or portion thereof, the removal
or cutting of any structural beam or bearing support or the removal
or change of any required means of egress or rearrangement of parts
of a structure affecting the exitway requirements; nor shall minor
repairs include addition to, alteration of or replacement or relocation
of any standpipe, water supply, sewer drainage, drain leader, gas,
soil waste, vent or similar piping, electric wiring or mechanical
or other work affecting public health or general safety.
MOBILE HOME
A transportable, single-family dwelling intended for permanent
occupancy, office or place of assembly, contained in one or more sections,
built on a permanent chassis, which arrives at a site complete and
ready for occupancy except for minor and incidental unpacking and
assembly operations and constructed so that it may be used with or
without a permanent foundation. The term does not include recreational
vehicles or travel trailers.
MOBILE HOME PARK
A parcel of land under single ownership which has been planned
and improved for the placement of two or more mobile homes for nontransient
use.
NEW CONSTRUCTION
Structures for which the start of construction commenced
on or after March 18, 1980, and includes any subsequent improvements
thereto.
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OBSTRUCTION
Any wall, dam, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile abutment,
projection, excavation, channel, rectification, culvert, building,
fence, stockpile, refuse, fill, structure or matter in, along, across
or projecting into any channel, watercourse or flood-prone area, which
may impede, retard or change the direction of the flow of water either
in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by such water
or which is placed where the flow of the water might carry the same
downstream to the damage of life and property.
ONE-HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD
A flood that, on the average, is likely to occur once every
one-hundred-years (i.e., that has a one-percent chance of occurring
each year, although the flood may occur in any year).
PERSON
An individual, partnership, public or private association
or corporation, firm, trust, estate, municipality, government unit,
public utility or any other legal entity whatsoever which is recognized
by law as the subject of rights and duties.
STRUCTURE
Anything constructed or erected on the ground or attached
to the ground, including but not limited to buildings, shed, mobile
homes and other similar items.
SUBDIVISION
The division or redivision of a lot, tract or parcel of land
by any means into two or more lots, tracts, parcels or other divisions
of land, including changes in existing lot lines for the purpose,
whether immediate or future, of lease, transfer of ownership or building
or lot development; provided, however, that the division of land for
agricultural purposes into parcels of more than 10 acres, not involving
any new street or easement of access, shall be expected.
SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE
Damage from any cause sustained by a structure whereby the
cost of restoring the structure to its before-damaged condition would
equal or exceed 50% or more of the market value of the structure before
the damage occurred.
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SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT
Any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement
of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50% of the market
value of the structure before the start of construction of the improvement.
This term includes structures which have incurred substantial damage
(or repetitive loss when a repetitive loss provision is used) regardless
of the actual repair work performed. The term does not, however, include
either:
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(1)
Any project for improvement of a structure to correct existing
violations of state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications
which have been identified by the local code enforcement official
and which are the minimum necessary to assure safe living conditions,
or;
(2)
Any alteration of a historic structure, provided that the alteration
will not preclude the structure's continued designation as a
historic structure.