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• CITY OF NORTF%-?X:ISTED -- ORDINANCE N0. 79-109 PAGE 2. (2) requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction; (3) controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accorrm?odate or channel flood waters ; (4) controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other develorment which may increase flood dar,iage ; and, (5) preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which ma.y increase flood hazards in other areas. SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS. Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this ordinance shall be interpreted so as to give them the meaning they have in conunon usage and to give this ordinance its most reasonable application. A. "Accessory structure" means a structure on the same lot with, and of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to, the principal structure. B. "Appeal" means a request for a review of the Ruilding Commissioner's interpretation of any provision of this ordinance or a request for a variance. C. "Area of s ecial flood hazard" means the land in the flood plain wit in a community subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year. D. "Base flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being eau- alle.-or exceeded in any given year. E. "Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations located within the area of special flood hazard. F. "Existing mobile home ark or mobile home subdivision means a parcel (or contiguous parcels o lan ivi e into two or more mobile home lots for rent or sale for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lot on which the mobile home is to be affixed (including, at a minimwn, the installation of utilities, either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads, and the construction of streets), is completed before the effective date of this ordinance. G. "E ansion to an existin mobile home ark or mobile home su ivision" means t e preparation o a itional sites y tie construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the mobile homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, either final site grading or pouring of concrete pads, or the construction of streets). H. "Federal Emergen Management Agency" (FUMA) means the agency wit t e overali responsi ilitytor administering the National Flood Insurance Program. I. "Flood" or "flooding" means a general and temporary condition o partial or complete inunda.tion of normally dry land areas from: (1) the overflow of inland or tidal waters, and/or (Z) the unusual and rapid accwnulation or runoff of surface waters from any source.