Title 18 - Unified Development Ordinance

18.360 Floodplain Management Ordinance

18.360.410 Definitions

Unless specifically defined below, words or phrases used in this Chapter shall be interpreted so as to give them the same meaning they have in common usage and to give this Chapter its most reasonable application.

Floodplain or 100-year floodplain means that land area susceptible to being inundated by water (see "flooding") or more specifically the 100-year floodplain has a one percent chance of being inundated by water in any given year. For this Chapter the “Base Flood” is the 100-year floodplain, which includes the Special Flood Hazard Areas.

Effective on: 1/1/1901