[Ord. 1030, 3/14/2016[1]]
The Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has, by the passage of the Pennsylvania Flood Plain Management Act of 1978,[2] delegated the responsibility to local governmental units to adopt floodplain management regulations to promote public health, safety, and the general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the Borough Council of the Borough of Hatboro does hereby order as follows.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance superseded former Part 5, FP Floodplain Conservation District, adopted 8/26/1985 by Ord. 761, as amended.
[2]
Editor's Note: See 32 P.S. § 679.101 et seq.
[Ord. 1030, 3/14/2016]
1. 
The intent of this Part is to:
A. 
Promote the general health, welfare, and safety of the community.
B. 
Encourage the utilization of appropriate construction practices in order to prevent or minimize flood damage in the future.
C. 
Minimize danger to public health by protecting water supply and natural drainage.
D. 
Reduce financial burdens imposed on the community, its governmental units, and its residents, by preventing excessive development in areas subject to flooding.
E. 
Comply with federal and state floodplain management requirements.
[Ord. 1030, 3/14/2016]
1. 
The Floodplain Conservation District is defined and established as an overlay on any zoning district now or hereafter applicable to any lot of the Borough of Hatboro subject to inundation by the waters of the one-hundred-year flood as delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, as prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), dated March 2, 2016, and all subsequent revisions and amendments thereto.
2. 
Should the Floodplain Conservation District be declared inapplicable by legislative or administrative actions or judicial action, the zoning applicable to such lot shall be deemed to be the district in which it is located without consideration of this Part.
3. 
The Floodplain Conservation District shall be delineated according to FEMA's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for the Borough of Hatboro, which is incorporated herein. The FIRM is available for inspection to the public in the Borough Municipal Building.
4. 
The Floodplain Conservation District shall include those areas containing soils with a frequency of flooding of 1% or greater per year, as delineated by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Web-Based Soil Survey.
5. 
It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership, business or corporation to undertake, or cause to be undertaken, any construction or development use or activity anywhere within the Floodplain Conservation District unless a permit has been obtained from the floodplain administrator.
6. 
A permit shall not be required for minor repairs to existing buildings or structures.