Sec. 43A. Regulations generally; amendment of zoning map;
purposes.
The regulations set forth in this article, or set forth elsewhere
in this Appendix and referred to in the article, are the Flood Plain
(FP) district regulations. The FP district boundaries are hereby
established along the boundaries of the intermediate regional flood
delineated in studies prepared by the United States Army Corps
of Engineers for the Rivanna River (June 1971), Moores Creek
(September 1971) and Meadow Creek (January 1972), which are
incorporated by reference in this article. The zoning map adopted
and incorporated by section 4 of this Appendix is hereby amended
to show the boundaries of the FP districts delineated in such
studies. The FP districts are intended to overlap the existing
zones of the territory included within the area of the intermediate
regional flood, and the regulations
imposed by this article are intended as supplemental to and not in
lieu of the existing zoning regulations within such boundaries.
This district is established for the purpose of:
1. Controlling flood plain uses, such as fill, dumping, storage
of materials, structures, buildings, and any other works which
acting alone or in combination with other existing or future uses
will cause damaging flood heights and velocities by obstructing
flows and reducing valley storage;
2. Protecting human life and health;
3. Minimizing public and private property damage;
4. Providing for public awareness of the potential for
flooding;
5. Controlling development which will, when acting alone or
in combination with similar developments, create an unjustified
demand for public investment in flood-control works, by
requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including public facilities
which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the
time of initial construction;
6. Controlling development which will, when acting alone or
in combination with similar development, cause flood losses if
public streets, sewer, water, and other utilities must be extended
below the flood level to serve the development;
7. Controlling development which will, when acting alone or
in combination with similar development, create an additional
burden to the public to pay the costs of rescue, relief, emergency
preparedness measures, sandbagging, pumping, and temporary
dikes or levees. (6-4-73, § 1.)
