§ 34-32. Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Base flood means the flood having a one percent probability of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The base flood is also known as the 100-year flood. The base flood elevation at any location is as defined in section 34-33.
Base flood elevation (BFE) means the elevation in relation to mean sea level of the crest of the base flood.
Building means a structure that is principally above ground and is enclosed by walls and a roof, including manufactured homes and prefabricated buildings. The term also includes recreational vehicles and travel trailers to be installed on a site for more than 180 days per year.
Development means any manmade change to real estate, including, but not necessarily limited to:
(1)
Demolition, construction, repair, reconstruction or placement of a building, or any addition or structural alteration to a building, exceeding 70 square feet in floor area;
(2)
Substantial improvement of an existing building;
(3)
Installation of a manufactured home on a site, preparing a site for a manufactured home, or installing a travel trailer on a site for more than 180 days per year;
(4)
Installation of utilities, construction of roads, bridges or culverts, or similar projects;
(5)
Construction or erection of levees, dams, walls or fences;
(6)
Drilling, mining, filling, dredging, grading, excavating, paving or other alterations of the ground surface;
(7)
Storage of materials, including the placement of gas and liquid storage tanks; and
(8)
Channel modifications or any other activity that might change the direction, height or velocity of floodwaters or surface waters.
Development does not include routine maintenance of existing buildings and facilities; resurfacing roads; or gardening, plowing, and similar practices that do not involve filling, grading, or construction of levees.
FEMA means the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Flood means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from the overflow, the unusual and rapid accumulation, or the runoff of surface waters from any source.
Flood fringe means that portion of the floodplain outside of the regulatory floodway.
Flood insurance rate map means a map prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that depicts the floodplain or special flood hazard area (SFHA) within the village. This map includes insurance rate zones and may or may not depict floodways and show base flood elevations.
Flood protection elevation or FPE means the elevation of the base flood plus one foot of freeboard at any given location in the floodplain.
Floodplain and special flood hazard area (SFHA) are synonymous and mean those lands within the jurisdiction of the village that are subject to inundation by the base flood. The floodplains of the village are generally identified as such on the flood insurance rate maps of the county prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and dated April 15, 1982. The floodplains of those parts of the unincorporated village that are within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the village or that may be annexed into the village are generally identified as such on the flood insurance rate map prepared for Madison County by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and dated April 15, 1982. Floodplain also includes those areas of known flooding as identified by the community.
Floodproofing means any combination of structural or nonstructural additions, changes or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real estate, property and their contents.
Floodproofing certificate means a form published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is used to certify that a building has been designed and constructed to be structurally dry and floodproofed to the flood protection elevation.
Floodway means that portion of the floodplain required to store and convey the base flood. The floodway for each of the floodplains of the village shall be as delineated on the flood boundary and floodway map prepared by FEMA and dated May 1, 1984. The floodways for each of the remaining floodplains of the village shall be according to the best data available from federal, state or other sources.
IDOT/DWR means the Illinois Department of Transportation/Division of Water Resources.
Manufactured home means a structure transportable in one or more sections, that is built on a permanent chassis and is designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation when connected to required utilities.
NFIP means the National Flood Insurance Program.
Repetitive loss means flood related damages sustained by a structure on two separate occasions during a ten year period for which the cost of repairs at the time of each such flood event on the average equals or exceeds 25 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred.
SFHA means as defined in "Floodplain."
Substantial damage means damage of any origin sustained by a structure whereby the cost of restoring the structure to its before damage condition would equal or exceed 50 percent of the market value of the structure before the damage occurred regardless of actual repair work performed. Volunteer labor and materials must be included in this determination.
Substantial improvement means any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure either before the improvement or repair is started or, if the structure has been damaged and is being restored, before the damage occurred. Substantial improvement is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor or other structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external dimensions of the structure. The term does not, however, include either any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing state or local health, sanitary or safety code specifications which are solely necessary to ensure safe living conditions or any alteration of a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places or the state register of historic places.
Travel trailer or recreational vehicle means a vehicle which is: built on a single chassis, 400 square feet or less in size, designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck, and designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or seasonal use.
(Ord. No. 30-2002, § 1, 9-17-2002)
Cross reference
Definitions generally, § 1-2.