This article is established to promote the public health, safety
and general welfare of the community by regulating and restricting
the development of areas along or in drainageways, channels, streams
and creeks. The regulations that follow are intended to protect and
to preserve the location, character and extent of such drainageways,
channels, streams and creeks, and to protect persons and property
from the hazards of development in areas that may be subject to inundation.