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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as a rule, qualify as an exceptional hardship. All of these problems can be resolved through other means without granting a variance,even if the alternative is more expensive, or requires the property owner to build elsewhere or put the parcel to a different use than originally intended. (41) Highest adjacent grade means the highest natural elevation of the ground surface, prior to the start of construction,next to the proposed walls of a structure. (42) Historic structure means any structure that is: (a) individually in the National Register of Historic Places(a listing maintained by the Department of the Interior) or preliminarily determined by the Secretary of the Interior as meeting the requirements for individual listing on the National Register; (b) certified or preliminarily 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; (c) 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 (d) individually listed on a local inventory of historic places in communities with historic preservation programs that have been certified by (a) an approved state program as determined by the Secretary of Interior,or(b)directly by the Secretary of Interior in states without approved programs. (43) Hydrologic and hydraulic engineering analysis means analyses performed by a professional engineer licensed by the State of Indiana, in accordance with standard engineering practices that are accepted by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and FEMA, used to determine the base flood, other frequency floods, flood elevations, floodway information and boundaries, and flood profiles. (44) International Code Council-Evaluation Service(ICC-ES)Report means a document that presents the findings, conclusions, and recommendations from a particular evaluation. ICC-ES reports provide information about what code requirements or acceptance criteria were used to evaluate a product, and how the product should be identified, installed. (45) Letter of Final Determination (LFD) means a letter issued by FEMA during the mapping update process which establishes final elevations and provides the new flood map and flood study to the community. The LFD initiates the six-month adoption period. The community must adopt or amend its floodplain management regulations during this six-month period unless the community has previously incorporated an automatic adoption clause. (46) Letter of Map Change (LOMC) is a general term used to refer to the several types of revisions and amendments to FEMA maps that can be accomplished by letter. They are broken down into the following categories: (a) Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR)means FEMA's comment on a proposed project that would,upon construction,result in modification of the SFHA through the placement of fill outside the existing regulatory floodway. 8