To provide for the appropriate use of land which has a history of inundation or is determined to be subject to flood hazard, and to promote the general welfare and provide protection from flooding portions of certain districts are designated with a floodplain prefix, FP. Areas designated on the zoning district map by an FP prefix shall be subject to the following provisions.

A building or premise shall be used only for the following purposes:

1.

Agricultural activities including the ordinary cultivation or grazing of land and legal types of animal husbandry.

2.

Off-street parking incidental to any adjacent main use permitted in the district.

3.

Electrical substation.

4.

All types of local utilities including those requiring special use permits.

5.

Parks, community centers, playgrounds, public golf courses (no structures), and other recreational areas.

6.

Private open space as part of a community unit development of planned residential development.

7.

Heliport when approved by special use permit as provided in article 30.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

No building or structure shall be erected in that portion of any district designated with a floodplain, FP, prefix until and unless such building or structure has been approved by the city council after engineering studies have been made and it ascertained that such building or structure is not subject to damage by flooding and would not constitute an encroachment, hazard, or obstacle to the movement of flood waters and that such construction would not endanger the value and safety of other property or the public health and welfare.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

Any dump, excavation, storage, filling, or mining operation within that portion of a district having a floodplain, FP, prefix shall be approved in writing by the public works director before such operation is begun.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

An area may be removed from the floodplain, FP, prefix designation when by the provision of drainage works, grading, flood protection, or specific drainage study, it is determined by the city council that the flood hazard has been alleviated.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-129)

The fact that land is, or is not, within a district having a floodplain, FP, prefix, shall not be interpreted as assurance that such land or area, is or is not, subject to periodic local flooding.

(Ord. No. 91500-A-129)