23-25 Amending Chapter 6, Article 9, of the South Bend Municipal Code to Update the Regulations for Flood Damage Prevention

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foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured home" does not include a"recreational vehicle." (50) Manufactured home park or subdivision means a parcel(or contiguous parcels)of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale. (51) Mitigation means sustained actions taken to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to people and property from hazards and their effects. The purpose of mitigation is twofold: to protect people and structures,and to minimize the cost of disaster response and recovery. (52) Natural grade for floodplain management purposes means the elevation of the undisturbed natural surface of the ground. Fill placed prior to the date of the initial identification of the flood hazard on a FEMA map is also considered natural grade. (53) New construction for floodplain management purposes means any structure for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of a floodplain management regulations adopted by a community and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures. (54) New manufactured home park or subdivision means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed(including at a minimum,the installation of utilities, the construction of streets,and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads)is completed on or after the effective date of the community's first floodplain ordinance. (55) North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) as adopted in 1993 is a vertical control datum used as a reference for establishing varying elevations within the floodplain. (56) Obstruction includes, but is not limited to, any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, protection, excavation, canalization, bridge, conduit, culvert, building, wire, fence, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure, vegetation, or other material in, along,across or projecting into any watercourse which may alter,impede,retard or change the direction and/or velocity of the flow of water; or due to its location, its propensity to snare or collect debris carried by the flow of water, or its likelihood of being carried downstream. (57) One-percent annual chance flood is the flood that has a one percent (1%) chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. See"Regulatory Flood". (58) Physical Map Revision(PMR)is an official republication of a community's FEMA map to effect changes to base (one-percent annual chance) flood elevations, floodplain boundary delineations, regulatory floodways, and planimetric features. These changes typically occur as a result of structural works or improvements, annexations resulting in additional flood hazard areas, or correction to base flood elevations or SFHAs. (59) Prefabricated Building is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building. 10