Site Development

42-235.6 Floodways or Non-encroachment Areas

42-235.3 Subdivisions, Manufactured Home Parks, Manufactured Home Subdivisions, And Other Residential Development

42-235.2 Specific Standards

In all Special Flood Hazard Areas where BFE data has been provided, as set forth in this Subpart A, the following provisions in addition to those required in §42-235.1 (General Standards) are required:

Residential Construction. New construction and substantial improvement of any residential structure (including manufactured/mobile homes) shall have the reference level, including basement, elevated no lower than the Regulatory Flood Protection Elevation.

42-235.1 General Standards

In all Special Flood Hazard Areas the following provisions are required.

42-233.6 Other Approval Required

The granting of a permit under the provisions of this Subpart A and §42-350 (Floodplain Development Permits) or §42-355 (Special Fill Permits) shall in no way affect any other type of approval required by any other statute or ordinance of the State or any political subdivision of the State, or of the United States, but shall be construed as an added requirement.

42-233.2 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. The initial Flood Insurance Rate Map(s) are as follows for the jurisdiction areas at the initial date:

42-232.3 Objectives

The objectives of floodplain development regulations are to:

42-350. Floodplain Development Permits

Chapter 42, Section 241.2.B Annual Inspection and Report. The person responsible for maintenance of any structural stormwater BMP installed pursuant to Subpart B shall submit to the Water Quality Administrator an inspection Report from either a qualified registered North Carolina Professional Engineer or Landscape Architect.

The inspection report shall contain all of the following: