22-19 - Amend Chapter 1308 flood damage prevention following FEMA flood zone update - ordinance

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vehicle." For the purposes of these regulations, a manufactured home includes manufactured homes and mobile homes as defined in Chapter 4781 of the Ohio Revised Code. (dd) Mean sea level. For purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, the National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced. (ee) Manufactured home park. As specified in the Ohio Adm. Code 4781- 12- 01(K), a manufactured home park means any tract of land upon which three or more manufactured homes, used for habitation are parked, either free of charge or for revenue purposes, and includes any roadway, building, structure, vehicle, or enclosure used or intended for use as part of the facilities of the park. A tract of land that is subdivided and the individual lots are not for rent or rented, but are for sale or sold for the purpose of installation of manufactured homes on the lots, is not a man- ufactured home park, even though three or more manufactured homes are parked thereon, if the roadways are dedicated to the local government authority. Manufactured home park does not include any tract of land used solely for the storage or display for sale of manufactured homes. (fl) Moderate Wave Action Area (MoWA). A special flood hazard area subject to the potential for breaking wave heights of greater than or equal to 1.5 feet, but less than 3 feet, where the primary source of flood- ing is storm surges, seiches. A MoWA is an area within zone AE on a FIRM that is between the inland limit of zone VE and a Limit of Moder- ate Wave Action, where identified. (Also known as "Coastal A Zone. ") (gg) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP is a Federal program enabling property owners in participating communities to pur- chase insurance protection against losses from flooding. This insurance is designed to provide an insurance alternative to disaster assistance to meet the escalating costs of repairing damage to buildings and their con- tents caused by floods. Participation in the NFIP is based on an agree- ment between local communities and the Federal government that states if a community will adopt and enforce floodplain management regula- tions to reduce future flood risks to all development in special flood haz- ard areas, the Federal government will make flood insurance available within the community as a financial protection against flood loss. (hh) New construction. Structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of a floodplain regulation adopted by Lakewood and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures. For the purposes of determining insurance rates, structures for which the "start of construction" commenced on or after the effective date of an initial FIRM February 1, 1978 and includes any subsequent improve- ments to such structures. (ii) Person. Includes any individual or group of individuals, corpora- tion, partnership, association, or any other entity, including state and lo- cal governments and agencies. An agency is further defined in the Ohio Rev. Code § I 11. 1 5(A)(2) as any governmental entity of the state and includes, but is not limited to, any board, department, division, commis- sion, bureau, society, council, institution, state college or university, community college district, technical college district, or state community college. "Agency" does not include the general assembly, the controlling board, the adjutant general's department, or any court. (jj) Recreational vehicle. A vehicle which is (1) built on a single chas- sis, (2) 400 square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection, (3) designed to be self - propelled or permanently towable by 27