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-4- 2.8 SEVERABILITY If any section, clause, provision or portion of this Ordinance is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court o£ competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Ordinance shall not be a£fected thereby. SECTION 3.0 ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIONAL FLOOD PLAIN DISTRICT The mapped flood hazard areas within the jurisdiction of this ordinance as the same may be amended £rom time to time by the Federal Insurance Administration are hereby designated as the Regional Flood Plain District. The boundaries of this district shall be shown on the Official Zoning Map. Within this district all uses not allowed as Permitted Uses or permissible as Special Exception Uses shall be prohibited. SECTION 4.0 REGIONAL FLOOD PLAIN DISTRICT 4.1 PERMITTED USES The following open space uses shall be permitted within the Regional Flood Plain District to the extent that they are no[ prohibited by any other ordinance and provided they do not require structures, £ill or storage of materials or equipment. In addition, no use shall adversely a£fect the efficiency or unduly restrict the capacity of the channels or floodways of any tributary to the main stream, drainage ditch, or any other drainage £acility or system. 4.11 Agricultural uses such as general farming, pasture, grazing, out- door plant nurseries, horticulture, viticulture, truck farming, forestry, sod faxming, and wild crop harvesting. 4.12 Industrial-coumercial uses such as loading areas, parking areas, airport landing strips. 4.13 Private and public recreational uses such as golf courses, tennis courts, driving ranges, archery,ranges, picnic grounds, boat launching ramps, swimmi.ng areas, parks, wildli£e and nature preserves, game farms, fish hatcheries, shooting preserves, target ranges, trap and skeet ranges, hunting and fishing areas, hiking and horseback riding trails. 4.14 Residential uses such as lawns, gardens, parking areas and plan areas. 4.2 SPECIAL EXCEP.TION All uses other than those specified in 4.1 are permitted only upon application to the Building Commission and the issuance of a Special Exception by the Board of Appeals, as provided in Section 7.5, Special Exception Uses, of this Ordinance. The Regional Flood Plain District encompasses both floodway and floodway fringe areas. There. fore, the Board, as provided in Section 1.23, shall determine whether the proposed Spec- ial Exception use is located within a floodway or floodway fringe area. If it is determined that the proposed use is located within the floodway, the provisions o£ Section 5.0 of this ordinance shall apply. I£ it is determined=hhat the proposed use is located within the £loodway fringe, the provisions of Section 6.0 0£ this ordinance shall apply. All uses shall be subject to standards contained in this Ordinance,