Flood Damage Protection

Finding of Facts

Statement of Purpose

Floodplain development permits

 

Finding of Facts

The flood hazard areas of El Dorado are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life, property, health and safety hazards, disruptions of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and relief, and the impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare.

These flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in flood plains causing increases in flood heights and velocities, and by the occupancy in flood hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to other lands which are inadequately elevated, floodproofed or otherwise unprotected from flood damages.

 

Statement of purpose

It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the public health, safety and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed. The purpose is as follow:

    1. To protect human life and health;
    2. To minimize expenditure of public money for costly flood-control projects;
    3. To minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public.
    4. To minimize prolonged business interruptions;
    5. To minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric. telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in flood plains;
    6. To help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and development of flood-prone areas in such a manner as to minimize future flood blight areas;
    7. To insure that potential home buyers are notified that property is in a flood area; and

To insure that those who occupy the areas of special flood hazard assume responsibility for their actions.

Floodplain development permits

AS REQUIRED BY CITY ORDINANCE

A floodplain development permit shall be required for all proposed construction or other development, including the placement of manufactured homes, in the areas identified as numbered and unnumbered A zones, AE, AO, and AH Zones, on the current Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Flood Boundary and Floodway Map (FBFM). No person, firm, corporation, or unit of government shall initiate any development or substantial-improvement or cause the same to be done without first obtaining a separate floodplain development permit for each structure or other development.

APPLICATION FOR FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT

To obtain a floodplain development permit, the applicant shall first file an application in writing on a form furnished for that purpose. Every floodplain development permit application shall:

1. describe the land on which the proposed work is to be done by lot, block and tract, house and street address, or similar description that will readily identify and specifically locate the proposed structure or work;

2. identify and describe the work to be covered by the floodplain development permit;

3. indicate the use or occupancy for which the proposed work is intended;

4. indicate the assessed value of the structure and the fair market value of the improvement;

5. specify whether development is located in designated flood fringe or floodway;

6. identify the existing base flood elevation and the elevation of the proposed development;

7. give such other information as reasonably may be required by the floodplain administrator;

8. be accompanied by plans and specifications for proposed construction; and

9. be signed by the permittee or his authorized agent who may be required to submit evidence to indicate such authority.