42-232.2 Basis for Establishing the Special Flood Hazard Areas

The Special Flood Hazard Areas are those identified under the Cooperating Technical State (CTS) agreement between the State of North Carolina and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in its Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and its accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Map(s) (FIRM), for Henderson County dated October 2, 2008, which are adopted by reference and declared to be part of this Chapter, and all revisions thereto.  

NOTE: If detailed topographic mapping or surveying shows that a building site adjacent to a Special Flood Hazard Area is below the Base Flood Elevation, it must be regulated as being within the Special Flood Hazard Area, even if not shown within the boundaries of the Special Flood Hazard Area shown in the FIRM or any accompanying maps. For regulatory purposes, flood elevations are the ruling guideline.