IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI
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AN ORDINANCE repealing sections 24004.14, 24004.15 and 24004.16, Jackson County Code, 1984, relating to the Unified Development Code Amendment, FEMA Updates, and enacting, in lieu thereof, three new sections relating to the same subject.
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ORDINANCE NO. 5805, October 16, 2023
INTRODUCED BY Charlie Franklin, County Legislator
Enacted and Approved
BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri as follows:
24004.14 FLOODPLAIN OVERLAY DISTRICTS
a. Findings of Fact.
Flood losses resulting from periodic inundation. The flood hazard areas of the County are subject to inundation that results in loss of life and 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. General Causes of Flood Losses.
Flood losses are caused by (1) the cumulative effect of obstruction in floodways causing increases in flood heights and velocities; and (2) the occupancy of flood hazard by uses vulnerable to floods or hazardous to others that are inadequately elevated or otherwise protected from flood damages.
c. Methods Used to Analyze Flood Hazards.
The Flood Insurance Study (FIS) that is the basis of this section uses standard engineering methods of analyzing flood hazards which consist of a series of interrelated steps.
1. Selection of a regulatory 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 section is representative of large floods which are characteristic of what can be expected to occur on the particular streams subject to this section. It is in the general order of a flood which cou...
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