Amending & Supplementing Chapter 21 Zoning Floodplain Regulations

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(6) Cooperate with state and federal floodplain management agencies to improve regulatory flood and floodway data and to improve the administration of this Ordinance. Submit reports as required for the National Flood Insurance Program. (7) Maintain for public inspection and furnish upon request regulatory flood data, Special Flood Hazard Area maps, copies of Indiana Department of Natural Resources permits and letters of recommendation, federal permit documents, and "as built" elevation and floodproofing data for all buildings constructed subject to this Ordinance. Sec. 21-180. REGULATORY FLOOD ELEVATION. (a) This ordinance's protection standard is the regulatory flood. The best available regulatory flood data is listed below. Whenever a party disagrees with "the best available data" , the party may submit a detailed engineering study, prepared by a Registered Professional Engineer, to replace "the best available data" and submit it to the Department of Natural Resources for review and approval . (b) The Regulatory Flood Elevation for the Special Flood Hazard Areas of South Bend, Indiana shall be as delineated on the 100 year flood profiles in the Flood Insurance Study of the City of South Bend prepared and published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (c) The Regulatory Flood Elevation for each Special Flood Hazard Area delineated as an "AH Zone" or "AO Zone" shall be that elevation delineated on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps of the City of South Bend. (d) The Regulatory Flood Elevation for each of the remaining Special Flood Hazard Areas delineated as an "A Zone" on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps of the City of South Bend shall be according to "the best available data" as provided by the Department of Natural Resources. (e) The Regulatory Flood Elevation for the Special Flood Hazard Areas of those parts of the unincorporated area of St. Joseph County, Indiana that are annexed into the City shall be as delineated on the 100 year flood profiles in the Flood Insurance Study of St. Joseph County, Indiana prepared and published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for St. Joseph County, Indiana. If the Special Flood Hazard Area is delineated as "AH Zone" or "AO Zone, " the elevation will be delineated as "Zone A" on the St. Joseph County, Indiana Insurance Rate Maps. If the Special Flood Hazard Area is delineated as "Zone A" on the St. Joseph County Flood Insurance Rate Maps, the regulatory flood elevation shall be according to "the best available data" as provided by the Department of Natural Resources.