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preparedness plans, flood control works, floodplain management regulations, and open <br />space plans. <br />"Floodplain management regulations" means this chapter and other zoning ordinances, <br />subdivision regulations, building codes, health regulations, special purpose ordinances <br />(such as grading and erosion control) and other application of police power which <br />control development in flood-prone areas. This term describes federal, state or local <br />regulations in any combination thereof which provide standards for preventing and <br />reducing flood loss and damage. <br />"Floodproofing" means any combination of structural and nonstructural additions, <br />changes, or adjustments to structures which reduce or eliminate flood damage to real <br />estate or improved real property, water and sanitary facilities, structures, and their <br />contents. For guidelines on dry and wet floodproofing, see FEMA Technical Bulletins <br />TB 1-93, TB 3-93, and TB 7-93, or successor bulletins. <br />"Floodway" means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land <br />areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively <br />increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot. Also referred to in this <br />chapter as "Regulatory Floodway." <br />"Floodway fringe" is that area of the floodplain on either side of the "Regulatory <br />Floodway" where encroachment may be permitted. <br />"Fraud and victimization" as related to Article IV of this chapter, means that the <br />floodplain variance granted must not cause fraud on or victimization of the public. In <br />examining this requirement, the City of Santa Ana will consider the fact that every newly <br />constructed building adds to government responsibilities and remains a part of the <br />community for fifty to one-hundred years. Buildings that are permitted to be constructed <br />below the base flood elevation are subject during all those years to increased risk of <br />damage from floods, while future owners of the property and the community as a whole <br />are subject to all the costs, inconvenience, danger, and suffering that those increased <br />flood damages bring. In addition, future owners may purchase the property, unaware <br />that it is subject to potential flood damage, and can be insured only at very high flood <br />insurance rates. <br />"Hardship" means the floodplain exceptional hardship that would result from a failure to <br />grant the requested floodplain variance. The request for floodplain variance be unusual, <br />and peculiar to the property involved. Mere economic or financial hardship alone is not <br />exceptional. Inconvenience, aesthetic considerations, physical handicaps, personal <br />preferences, or the disapproval of one's neighbors likewise cannot, as a rule, qualify as <br />an exceptional hardship. <br />"Highest adjacent grade" means the highest natural elevation of the ground surface <br />prior to construction next to the proposed walls of a structure. <br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX <br />Page 6 of 27 <br />11 A-6 <br />