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(1) protect human life and health; <br />(2) minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood control <br />projects; <br />(3) minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated <br />with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the <br />general public; <br />(4) minimize prolonged business interruptions; <br />(5) minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as <br />water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, streets <br />and bridges located in areas of special flood hazard; <br />(6) help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the <br />proper use and development of areas of special flood hazard so as <br />to minimize future flood blight areas; <br />(7) ensure that potential buyers are aware that property is in an <br />area of special flood hazard; and, <br />(8) ensure that those who occupy the areas of special flood <br />hazard assume responsibility for their actions. <br />(c) Methods of ReducinQ Flood Losses. <br />In order to accomplish its purposes, this ordinance includes methods <br />and provisions for: <br />(1) restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to <br />health, safety, and property due to water hazards, or which result <br />in damaging increases in flood heights or velocities; <br />(2) requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including <br />facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood <br />damage at the time of initial construction; <br />(3) controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream <br />channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accomodate <br />or channel flood waters; <br />(4) controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other development <br />which may increase flood damage; and, <br />(5) preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers <br />which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase <br />flood hazards in other areas.