[Ord. No. 06-10 §1, 3-7-2006]
The legislature of the State of Missouri has in Chapter 89,
RSMo., 1978, delegated the responsibility to local governmental units
to adopt regulations designed to promote the public health, safety
and general welfare of its citizenry. Therefore, the Board of Aldermen
of the City of Carl Junction, Missouri, does ordain as follows.
[Ord. No. 06-10 §1, 3-7-2006]
A. The
flood hazard areas of the City of Carl Junction, hereinafter City,
are subject to periodic inundation which results in loss of life,
property, health and safety hazards, disruption of commerce and governmental
services, extraordinary public expenditures for flood protection and
relief and impairment of the tax base, all of which adversely affect
the public health, safety and general welfare.
B. These
flood losses are caused by the cumulative effect of obstructions in
floodplains causing increases in flood heights and velocities and
by the occupancy in flood hazard areas by uses vulnerable to floods
or hazards to other lands which are inadequately elevated, floodproofed
or otherwise unprotected from food damages.
[Ord. No. 06-10 §1, 3-7-2006; Ord. No. 12-26 §1, 7-3-2012; Ord.
No. 12-36 §1, 9-18-2012]
A. The
Flood Insurance Study (FIS) that is the basis of this Section uses
a standard engineering method of analyzing flood hazards which consists
of a series of interrelated steps.
1. Selection of a base flood that is based upon engineering calculations
which permit a consideration of such flood factors as its expected
frequency of occurrence, the area inundated, and the depth of inundation.
The base flood selected for this Chapter is representative of large
floods which are characteristic of what can be expected to occur on
the particular streams subject to this Chapter. It is in the general
order of a flood which could be expected to have a one percent (1%)
chance of occurrence in any one (1) year as delineated on the Federal
Insurance Administrator's FIS, and illustrative materials for Jasper
County dated November 2, 2012, as amended, and any future revisions
thereto.
2. Calculation of water surface profiles are based on a standard hydraulic
engineering analysis of the capacity of the stream channel and overbank
areas to convey the regulatory flood.
3. Computation of a floodway required to convey this flood without increasing
flood heights more than one (1) foot at any point.
4. Delineation of floodway encroachment lines within which no development
is permitted that would cause any increase in flood height.
5. Delineation of flood fringe, i.e., that area outside the floodway
encroachment lines, but still subject to inundation by the base flood.
[Ord. No. 06-10 §1, 3-7-2006]
A. It is the purpose of this Chapter to promote the public health, safety and general welfare; to minimize those losses described in Article
I, Section
420.020(A); to establish or maintain the community's eligibility for participation in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) as defined in 44 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 59.22(a)(3); and to meet the requirements of 44 CFR 60.3(d) by applying the provisions of this Chapter to:
1. Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety or
property in times of flooding or cause undue increases in flood heights
or velocities;
2. Require uses vulnerable to floods, including public facilities that
serve such uses, be provided with flood protection at the time of
initial construction; and
3. Protect individuals from buying lands that are unsuited for the intended
development purposes due to the flood hazard.
[Ord. No. 06-10 §1, 3-7-2006]
A. In
order to accomplish its purposes, this Chapter includes methods and
provisions for:
1. Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to health, safety
and property due to water or erosion or to flood heights or velocities.
2. Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which
serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of
initial construction.
3. Controlling the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels
and natural protective barriers which are involved in the accommodation
of floodwaters.
4. Controlling filling, grading, dredging and other development which
may increase erosion or flood damage.
5. Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which
will unnaturally divert floodway waters or which may increase flood
hazards in other areas.