Chapter 16.40
FREQUENTLY FLOODED AREAS
Sections:
16.40.020 Designation.
All areas within the city meeting the frequently flooded designation criteria in the “Identification and Delineation Manual,” regardless of any formal identification, are hereby designated critical areas and are subject to the provisions of this title.
The approximate location and extent of frequently flooded areas are shown on the adopted critical areas map (Exhibit 1 of the ordinance codified in this chapter, or the latest revision of this map). Maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of the National Flood Insurance Program (1981 and revised), clearly delineate frequently flooded areas. The present boundaries of the one-hundred-year floodplain are those designated on the Flood Insurance Rate Maps contained in the Flood Insurance Study for the City of Prosser (1981), prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. (Ord. 2940 § 5, 2015: Ord. 2417 § 3 (part), 2003).
16.40.030 Regulation.
Titles 16 and 18 regulate proposed activities adjacent to or within flood hazard areas. If allowed, any structures permitted in the designated frequently flooded areas are subject to the flood damage regulations provided in Title 18. (Ord. 2940 § 6, 2015: Ord. 2417 § 3 (part), 2003).