Fair Haven City Zoning Code
§ 30-5.4
Overlay Districts.
[2002 Code § 16.20.040]
The public health, safety, and general welfare requires that development in specified areas must be subject to the control of additional uniform regulations and requirements. These specified areas may overlay a portion or all of one or more underlying zone districts. Within an overlay area, the requirements of the overlay zone shall govern.
a.
Flood Hazard Overlay District.
1.
The flood hazard areas of the Borough are subject to periodic inundation which threatens life and property, disrupts commerce, and requires public expenditures for flood protection and relief.
2.
Any and all lands or portions of land within the Borough which are classified as a floodway, flood fringe, or 100-year floodplain by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, and/or by the Federal Emergency Management Administration, are designated as the flood hazard area overlay district.
The overlay district shall operate in conjunction with the underlying zone district such that the overlay provisions, where more restrictive or imposing a higher standard, shall govern.