<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 34-33. - Statement of purpose.</div>
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               It is the purpose of this chapter to promote public health, safety, and general welfare
               and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions within flood-prone
               areas by provisions designed to:
               
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                  (1)
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                  Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to
                  water or erosion hazards or that result in damaging increases in erosion, flood heights
                  or velocities;
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                  (2)
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                  Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities that serve such uses,
                  be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
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                  (3)
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                  Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective
                  barriers, which are involved in the accommodation of floodwaters;
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                  (4)
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                  Control filling, grading, dredging, and all other development that may increase erosion
                  or flood damage; and
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                  (5)
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                  Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers that will unnaturally divert
                  flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other lands.
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               (Ord. of 7-5-88, art. 1, Â§ C; Ord. of 6-4-07, eff. 7-3-07, art. 1, Â§ C)
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