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(b) Permitted Uses <br />The following uses shall be permitted in this district and <br />shall not require a permit from the Natural Resources <br />Commission, provided that such uses do not involve any <br />structure, obstruction, deposit, or excavation. <br />(1) Forrestry, wildlife areas, and nature preserves. <br />(2) Parks and recreational uses. <br />(c) The following uses shall require additional consideration as <br />to their flood damage potential, particularly as they <br />involve structures, obstructions, deposits, or excavations <br />which might raise the level of the regulatory flood, <br />constitute an unreasonable hazard to the safety of life or <br />property, or result in unreasonably detrimental effects <br />upon fish, wildlife, and botanical resources. <br />These uses shall be permitted only if they are otherwise <br />permitted in the district or districts which the floodway <br />overlays. These uses shall further require a permit <br />issued by the Natural Resources Commission prior to the <br />granting of a special exception by the Board of Zoning <br />Appeals. All terms and conditions imposed by the Natural <br />Resources Commission shall be incorporated into any permit <br />for such use issued by the Building Commissioner and by the <br />Board. The Board and the Building Commissioner may further <br />impose greater restrictions in keeping with the intent of <br />this Ordinance. <br />(1) Water management and use facilities, such as dams, <br />docks, dolphins, channel improvements, dikes, jetties, <br />marinas, piers, wharves, levees, seawalls, floodwalls, <br />and irrigation facilities. <br />(2) Transportation facilities such as streets, bridges, <br />roadways, fords, pipelines, railroads, and utility <br />transmission facilities. <br />(3) Temporary or seasonal occupancy, such as carnivals, <br />fairs, circuses, camps, and amusement parks. <br />(4) <br />Water- related urban uses, such as waste -water treatment <br />facilities, storm sewers, electric generating and <br />transmission facilities, and water treatment facilities. <br />(5) Other flood tolerant or open space urban uses, such as <br />flood - proofed industrial and commercial buildings,race <br />tracks, tennis courts, park buildings, radio and TV <br />towers, and parking lots, provided that where floodproofi: <br />is utilized for a particular structure in accordance with <br />this provision, a professional architect or engineer <br />registered in the State of Indiana shall certify to the <br />Building Commissioner that the floodproofing methods are <br />reasonably adequate to withstand the flood depths, <br />pressures, velocities, impact, and uplift forces and <br />other factors associated with the 100 -year flood, and <br />upon completion of the structure, that said structure <br />has been constructed accordingly. <br />- 6 - <br />