Title
An Ordinance Amending Ordinance 19-2012 Pertaining to Flood Damage Prevention
Body
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE #19-2012
PERTAINING TO FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION
ARTICLE 1
Statutory Authorization, Findings of Fact, Purpose And Objectives
SECTION A STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION
The Legislature of the State of Alabama has in Title 11, Chapter 19, Sections 1-24, Chapter 45, Sections 1-11, Chapter 52, Sections 1-84, and Title 41, Chapter 9, Section 166 of the Code of Alabama, 1975, authorized local government units to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the City Council, of Foley, Alabama, does ordain as follows:
SECTION B FINDINGS OF FACT
(1) The flood hazard areas of the City of Foley, Alabama are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life and property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental services, extraordinary public expenditures for flood relief and protection, and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect the public health, safety and general welfare.
(2) These flood losses are caused by the occupancy in flood hazard areas of uses vulnerable to floods, which are inadequately elevated, flood proofed, or otherwise unprotected from flood damages, and by the cumulative effect of obstructions in floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities.
SECTION C STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
It is the purpose of this ordinance to promote the public health, safety and general welfare and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by provisions designed to:
(1) require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(2) restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which increase flood heights, velo...
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