<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 16.5-27. - Findings of fact.</div>
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               (a)
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               The flood hazard areas (floodway and floodway fringe) of the city and county are subject
               to periodic inundation which results in loss of life, or property, and hazards to
               health and safety, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary
               public expenditures of flood protection and relief, and impairment of the tax base,
               all of which adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare.
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               (b)
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               These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in areas of
               special flood hazard causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the
               occupancy in flood hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to other
               lands which are inadequately elevated, floodproofed or otherwise unprotected from
               flood damages.
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               (Ord. of 4-22-96, Â§ 1)
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