The C Conservation District is designed to:

   (A)   Protect human life and health.

   (B)   Minimize public and private property damage.

   (C)   Protect individuals from buying lands and structures which are unsuited for intended purposes because of flood hazards.

   (D)   Minimize surface and ground-water.

   (E)   Control development which will, when acting alone or in combination with similar developments, create an unjustified demand for public investment in flood-control works by requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including public facilities which serve such uses, shall be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction.

   (F)   Control development which will, when acting alone or in combination with similar development, cause flood losses if public streets, sewer, water and other utilities must be extended below the flood level to serve the development.

   (G)   Control development which will, when acting alone or in combination with similar development, create an additional burden to the public to pay the costs of rescue, relief, emergency preparedness measures, sandbagging, pumping and temporary dikes or levees.

   (H)   Control development which will, when acting alone or in combination with similar development, create an additional burden to the public for business interruptions, factory closings, disruption of transportation routes, interference with utility services, and other factors that will result in loss of wages, sales, production and tax write-offs.

   (I)   Provide for public awareness of the flooding potential.

   (J)   Help maintain a stable tax base by the preservation or enhancement of property values for future flood-plain development. In addition, development of future flood-blight areas on flood plains will be minimized and property values and the tax base adjacent to the flood plain will be preserved.

In a C Conservation District no building or land shall be used and no building shall be erected except for one or more of the following specified uses, unless otherwise provided in this Ordinance, provided that no filling, diking, leveeing shall be permitted, nor the erection of any building for the housing of persons, animals or chattel are located below elevation four hundred sixty feet (460') above mean sea level USGS datum of the ground as it exists on the date of the passage of this amendment:

   (A)   The growing of field crops, outdoor plant nurseries, horticulture, viticulture, truck farming, pasture, grazing, forestry, sod farming and wild crop harvesting.

   (B)   Private and public recreational uses, such as golf courses, driving ranges, archery ranges, tennis courts, picnic grounds, boat landing ramps, marinas.

   (C)   Private and public parks, wildlife and native preserves.

   (D)   Navigational aids, other than channel markers, which markers are deemed to be exempt from these zoning regulations.

The following uses may be permitted, subject to the conditions herein imposed and subject to review of and approval of the site plans and the use by the Village Board after a hearing and recommendation is received from the Zoning Board for each use:

   (A)   Any of the uses enumerated in Section 10-3A-2, if the use involves a building below elevation four hundred sixty feet (460') USGS datum.

   (B)   Any of the uses enumerated in Section 10-3A-2, if the use involves any filling, diking or leveeing of lands below elevation four hundred sixty feet (460') USGS datum.

   (A)   All uses:

No structure (temporary or permanent), fill (including fill for roads and levees) deposit, obstruction, storage of materials or equipment, or other use may be allowed as a special-exception use which, acting alone or in combination with existing or future uses, unduly affects the capacity of the floodway or unduly increases flood heights. Consideration of the effects of a proposed use shall be based on a reasonable assumption that there will be an equal degree of encroachment extending for a significant reach on both sides of the river.

   (B)   Fill:

      1.   Any fill proposed to be deposited must be shown to have some beneficial purpose and the amount thereof not greater than is necessary to achieve that purpose, as demonstrated by a plan submitted by the owner showing the uses to which the filled land will be put and the final dimensions of the proposed fill or other materials.

      2.   Such fill or other materials shall be protected against erosion by riprap, vegetation cover, or bulkheading.

   (C)   Structures (temporary or permanent):

      1.   Structures shall not be designed for human habitation.

      2.   Structures shall have a low flood damage potential.

      3.   The structure or structures, if permitted, shall be constructed and placed on the building site so as to offer the minimum obstruction to the flow of flood water.

         (a)   Whenever possible, structure shall be constructed with the longitudinal axis parallel to the direction of flood flow; and

         (b)   So far as practicable, structures shall be placed approximately on the same flood-flow lines as those of adjoining structures.

      4.   Structures shall be firmly anchored to prevent flotation which may result in damage to other structures, restriction of bridge openings and other narrow sections of the river; and

      5.   Service facilities such as electrical and heating equipment shall be constructed at or above the regulatory flood-protection elevation for the particular area, or floodproofed.

   (D)   Storage of Material and Equipment:

      1.   The storage and processing of materials, that are in time of flooding buoyant, flammable, explosive, or could be injurious to human, animal or plant life is prohibited.

      2.   Storage of other material or equipment may be allowed if not subject to major damage by floods and firmly anchored to prevent flotation or if readily removable from the area within the time available after flood warnings. (Ord. 482, 4-7-82)