Title 13 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 13.12 FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
13.12-4.050 Standards for areas of shallow flooding (AO zones).
Located within the areas of special flood hazard established
in Section 13.12-1.040, are areas designated as shallow flooding. The following
provisions shall apply within such areas:
A. All new construction and substantial improvements of
residential structures shall have the lowest floor elevated to the depth number
specified on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, in feet, above the highest adjacent
grade. If no depth number is specified, the lowest floor shall be elevated at
least three feet above the highest adjacent grade.
B. All new construction and substantial improvements of
non-residential structures shall:
1. Have the lowest floor elevated to the depth number
specified on the Flood Insurance Rate Map, in feet, above the highest adjacent
grade. If no depth number is specified, the lowest floor shall be elevated at
least three feet above the highest adjacent grade; or,
2. Be completely floodproofed together with attendant utility
and sanitary facilities to or above that level so that any space below that
level is watertight with walls substantially impermeable to the passage of water
and with structural components having the capability of resisting hydrostatic
and hydrodynamic loads and effects of buoyancy. (Ord. 01-O-06 § 1(part),
2001)