<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 34-75. - Standards for areas of shallow flooding (AO zones).</div>
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               Located within the area of special flood hazard established in<a href="" data-chunk-id="PTIICOOR_CH34FL_ARTIINGE_S34-8BAESARSPFLHA" class="section-link" data-product-id="14529"> section 34-8</a> are areas designated as shallow flooding. These areas have special flood hazards
               associated with base flood depths of one to three feet where a clearly defined channel
               does not exist and where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate.
               The following provisions shall apply within such areas:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  All new construction and substantial improvements of residential structures shall
                  have the lowest floor, including basement, elevated to the depth number specified
                  on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM), in feet, above the highest adjacent grade.
                  If no depth number is specified, the lowest floor, including basement, shall be elevated
                  at least two feet above the highest adjacent grade.
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  All new construction and substantial improvements of nonresidential structures shall:
                  
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                  a.
                  
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                  Have the lowest floor, including basement, elevated to the depth number specified
                  on the flood insurance rate map (FIRM), in feet, above the highest adjacent grade.
                  If no depth number is specified, the lowest floor, including basement, shall be elevated
                  at least two feet above the highest adjacent grade.
                  
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                  b.
                  
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                  Be completely floodproofed, together with attendant utility and sanitary facilities,
                  to or above the 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.
                  
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               (Code 1993, Â§ 34-75; Ord. of 6-4-1991(1), art. 5, Â§ E)
               
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