(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.
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