§ 23.07.060. Flood Hazard Area (FH).  


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  • The Flood Hazard combining designation is applied to specific parcels by the Official Maps (Part III) of the Land Use Element to areas where terrain characteristics would present new developments and their users with potential hazards to life and property from potential inundation by a 100-year frequency flood or within coastal high hazard areas. These standards are also intended to minimize the effects of development on drainage ways and watercourses. The areas of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Insurance Administration, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency in a scientific and engineering report entitled "The Flood Insurance Study for the San Luis Obispo County," dated July 18, 1985, with accompanying flood insurance rate maps, and any subsequent revisions to the flood insurance rate maps or flood area boundary maps, are hereby adopted and incorporated into this title by reference as though they were fully set forth here. The flood insurance study is on file in the County Public Works office.

[Amended 1992, Ord. 2570; 2004, Ord. 3025]