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• "Lowest floor" refers to the lowest floor of the lowest enclosed area(including Basement). For a typical slab-on-grade construction,the lowest floor is the top of the first floor of the structure. For a typical basement foundation construction, the elevation of the lowest floor is the top of the basement floor. For a typical crawlspace foundation construction,the elevation of the lowest floor is the top of the first floor of the structure. For a typical split-level construction,the elevation of the lowest floor is the top of the first living area floor. For a manufactured home installation, the elevation of the lowest floor will be the bottom of the lowest I-Beam. The garage floor and crawlspaces are not the lowest floor as long as there are no living areas in the garage and it is used solely for storage, parking vehicle and entry to the structure, provided that such enclosure is not built so as to render the structure in violation of the applicable non- elevation design requirements of Section 60.3 of the National Flood Insurance regulations. "Manufacture Homes"or Structures means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured home" does not include a "recreational vehicle". "Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision"means a parcel (or contiguous parcels)of land subdivided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale. "Mean Sea Level" (MSL) means, for the purposes of the NFIP, the National Geodetic • Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a community's FIRM are referenced. "Mixed Use Structures"are structures with both a business and a residential component, but where the area used for business is less than 50%of the total floor area of the structure. "New Construction"means, for floodplain management purposes, structures for which the "start of construction"commenced on or after the date of a floodplain management regulation adopted by a community and includes any subsequent improvements to such structures. "New Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision"-means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed(including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) is completed on or after the effective date of floodplain management regulations adopted by a community. "No Adverse Impact principle"is a principle of restricting or prohibiting land development that does harm or"adversely affects" someone else's property or land. "Nonresidential Structures"are structures used only for commercial or public purposes, such as businesses, schools, churches, etc... • 7