Rochester Hills - File #: 2006-0682

• File #: 2006-0682
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/7/2006
• In control: City Council Regular Meeting
• Final action: 10/4/2006
• Title: Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An Ordinance to Amend Sections 114-126, 114-129, 114-157, and 114-191, Article III, Floodplain Use and Regulation, Chapter 114, Floods, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to adopt the new Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Maps to allow for the City's continued participation in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Flood Insurance Program, prescribe penalties for violations, and to repeal conflicting Ordinances
• Indexes: Ordinance Change

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/4/2006	2	City Council Regular Meeting	Accepted for Second Reading and Adoption by Resolution	Pass
9/20/2006	1	City Council Regular Meeting	Accepted for First Reading by Resolution	Pass

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Acceptance for Second Reading and Adoption - An Ordinance to Amend Sections 114-126, 114-129, 114-157, and 114-191, Article III, Floodplain Use and Regulation, Chapter 114, Floods, of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Rochester Hills, Oakland County, Michigan, to adopt the new Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Maps to allow for the City's continued participation in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Flood Insurance Program, prescribe penalties for violations, and to repeal conflicting Ordinances

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Whereas, the City of Rochester Hills currently participates in the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by complying with the program's applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for the purposes of significantly reducing flood hazards to persons, reducing property damage, and reducing public expenditures, and providing for the availability of flood insurance and federal funds or loans within its community; and

Whereas, the NFIP requires that floodplain management regulations must be present and enforced in participating communities, and utilize the following definitions, which also apply for the purposes of this resolution:

1. Flood or Flooding means:

a. A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from: (1) the overflow of inland or tidal waters, (2) the unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source, (3) mudflows; and

b. The collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or other body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels or suddenly caused by an unusually high water level in a natural body of water, accompanied by a severe storm, or by an unanticipated force of nature, such as flash flood or an abnormal tidal surge, or by some similarly unusual and ...