It is the purpose of this chapter to promote the public health, safety and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain. These regulations have been established with the following purposes intended:

A. To guide development of the one-hundred-year floodplain within local jurisdiction consistent with the enumerated findings by:

1. Recognizing the right and need of watercourses to periodically carry more than the normal flow of water;

2. Participating in coordinated efforts of federal, state, and local management activities for one-hundred-year floodplains; and

3. Ensuring the regulations and minimum standards adopted, insofar as possible, balance the greatest public good with the least private injury.

B. Specifically it is the purpose of these regulations to:

1. Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety and property in times of flood, or that cause increased flood heights and velocities;

2. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including public facilities, be provided with flood protection at the time of initial construction;

3. Identify lands unsuitable for certain development purposes because of flood hazards;

4. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding undertaken at the expense of the general public;

5. Ensure potential buyers are notified that property is within a one-hundred-year floodplain and subject to the provisions of these regulations; and

6. Ensure that those who occupy one-hundred-year floodplains assume responsibility for their actions. (Ord. 576 § 1, 1994: Ord. 453 § 1.3, 1985)