2011-34 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 67.1 - FLOOD PLAINS

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L. FLOODPLAIN and/or SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA (SFHA): These two terms are synonymous. Those lands within the jurisdiction of the City or lands that may be annexed into the City, that are subject to inundation by the Base Flood. The floodplains in the City are principally identified as such on panel numbers 17115C0190, 17115C0195, 17115CO215, 17115CO285, 17115C0305, 17115C0310, 17115C0315, 17115C0320 and 17115C0330 of the countywide Flood Insurance Rate Map for Macon County, Illinois, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and dated June 16, 2011. Floodplain also includes areas of known flooding as identified by the community and those parts of unincorporated Macon County that are within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City or that may be annexed into the City are generally identified as such on the Flood Insurance Rate map prepared for Macon County by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, dated June 16, 2011. M. FLOODPROOFING: Any combination of structural or nonstructural additions, changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate, property and their contents. N. FLOODPROOFING CERTIFICATE: A form published by FEMA that is used to certify that a building has been designed and constructed to be structurally dry floodproofed to the flood protection elevation. O. FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION (FPE): The elevation of the base flood plus two (2) feet of freeboard at any given location in the floodplain. P. FLOODWAY: That portion of the floodplain required to store and convey the base flood. The floodway for the floodplains of Sangamon River, Long Creek (East of Big Creek), Long Creek Tributary, Long Creek— Big Creek, Big Creek, Spring Creek, South Spring Creek, Spring Creek Tributary, Stevens Creek, Stevens Creek Tributary A, Stevens Creek Tributary B, Friends Creek, Friends Creek Ditch and the Independence shall be as delineated on the 100-year