Title 15 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
Chapter 15.28 FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
15.28.310 Floodway-Prohibited uses.
The following artificial obstructions and nonconforming uses
are prohibited within the floodway:
A. New construction of any residential, commercial or
industrial structure;
B. Encroachments including fill, new construction,
alterations, substantial improvements, and other development within the adopted
regulatory floodway that would result in erosion of the embankment, obstruction
of the natural flow of waters, or increase in flood levels within the community
during the occurrence of the one-hundred-year flood;
C. The construction or permanent storage of an object subject
to floatation or movement during flooding;
D. Solid and hazardous waste disposal, sewage treatment, and
sewage disposal systems;
E. Storage of toxic, flammable, hazardous, or explosive
materials;
F. Alterations of structures unless it can be shown the
alteration won’t raise flood heights;
G. Manufactured homes. (Ord. 576 § 6(B)(5),
1994)