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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><P STYLE="font-size:16ptmargin:7 0 7 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>The Floodplain Overlay is intended to prevent hazards due to flooding, including but not limited to loss of life, property, and tax base.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>(A) The purpose of these floodplain provisions is to prevent the following hazards:</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>1. The loss of life and property;</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>2. The creation of health and safety hazards;</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>3. The disruption of commerce and governmental services;</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>4. The extraordinary and unnecessary expenditure of public funds for flood protection and relief; and,</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>5. The impairment of the tax base.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>(B) These provisions are designed to accomplish the above purposes by:</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>1. Regulating uses, activities, and development which, acting alone or in combination with other existing or future uses, activities, and development, will cause unacceptable increases in flood heights, velocities, and frequencies;</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>2. Restricting or prohibiting certain uses, activities, and development from locating within areas subject to flooding;</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>3. Requiring all those uses, activities, and developments that do occur in flood-prone areas to be protected and/or floodproofed against flooding and flood damage;</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN><SPAN>4. Protecting individuals from buying lands and structures which are unsuited for intended purposes because of flood hazards.</SPAN></SPAN></P><P STYLE="text-indent:20;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>See Roanoke County Code: SEC. 30-74. - FO FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY DISTRICT.</SPAN></P></DIV> |