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• SECTION 3. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The purpose of this ordinance is to promote the public health, safety and general welfare,to prevent adverse impacts from any floodplain development activities, and to minimize public and private losses due to flooding events in identified Special Flood Hazard Areas. This ordinance advances the stated purpose through provisions designed to: A. Protect human life and health; B. Protect natural floodplains against unwise development; C. Eliminate adverse impacts of necessary floodplain development; D. Minimize expenditure of public monies on flood control projects; E. Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public; F. Minimize prolonged business interruptions due to flooding events; G. Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in Special Flood Hazard Areas; • H. Minimize future flood blight areas to help maintain a stable tax base; and I. Provide for notice to potential buyers when property is in a Special Flood Hazard Area. SECTION 4. LANDS TO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE APPLIES The ordinance shall apply to all Special Flood Hazard Areas within the jurisdiction of City of Batesville. SECTION 5. METHODS OF REDUCING FLOOD LOSSES This ordinance uses the following methods to accomplish the stated purpose: A. This ordinance restricts or prohibits structures or uses in Special Flood Hazard Areas that adversely impact health, safety or property during flooding events; B. This ordinance requires protection against flood damage for structures or uses vulnerable to floods at the time of initial construction, or after substantial improvement of the structure, or after substantial damage has occurred; • 2 of 6