Amend Chapter 21, Article 12, Floodplain regulations in order to adopt the most recent Federal and State requirements

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account the effects of flooding, the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana, hereby adopts the following floodplain management regulations in order to accomplish the following: (1) to prevent unwise developments from increasing flood or drainage hazards to others; (2) to protect new buildings and major improvements to buildings from flood damage; (3) to protect human life and health from the hazards of flooding; (4) to lessen the burden on the taxpayer for flood control projects, repairs to flood-damaged public facilities and utilities, and flood rescue and relief operations; (5) to maintain property values and a stable tax base by minimizing the potential for creating flood blighted areas; and (6) to make federally subsidized flood insurance available for structures and their contents in the City of South Bend, Indiana, by fulfilling the requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program. SEC. 21-180 DEFINITIONS. (a) In addition to the definitions contained in ARTICLE 1, GENERAL PROVISIONS, Section 21-1 Definitions, the following definitions shall apply to the Floodplain Regulations of the ARTICLE: (1) Building -see "structure." (2) Development means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate including but not limited to: a. construction, reconstruction, or placement of a building or any addition to a building; b. installing a manufactured home on a site, preparing a site for a manufactured home or installing a recreational vehicle on a site for more than 180 days; c. installing utilities, erection of walls and fences, construction of roads; or similar projects; d. construction of flood control structures such as levees, dikes, dams, channel improvements, etc.; e. mining, dredging, filling, grading, excavation, or drilling operations. f. construction and/or reconstruction of bridges or culverts; g. storage of materials; or h. any other activity that might change the direction, height, or velocity of flood or surface waters. "Development' does not include activities such as the maintenance of existing buildings and facilities such as painting, re-roofing; resurfacing roads; or gardening, plowing, and similar agricultural practices that do not involve filling, grading, excavation, or the construction of Nermane~.f buildings.