This article is intended to regulate floodplain development to:

(1)

Protect life, health and property;

(2)

Minimize expenditures of public funds for flood control projects;

(3)

Minimize rescue and relief efforts undertaken at the expense of the taxpayers;

(4)

Minimize business interruptions and other economic disruptions;

(5)

Minimize damage to public facilities in the floodplain;

(6)

Minimize the occurrence of future flood blight areas in the floodplain;

(7)

Discourage the victimization of unwary land and home buyers;

(8)

Prevent increases in flood heights that could increase flood damage and result in conflicts between property owners; and

(9)

Discourage development in a floodplain if there is any practicable alternative to locate the activity, use or structure outside of the floodplain.

(Code 1976, § 18.60.020)