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"Manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which
<br />is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent
<br />foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured home" does
<br />not include a "recreational vehicle".
<br />"Manufactured home park or subdivision" means a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of
<br />land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale.
<br />"Market value" means the substantial damage/improvement procedures referenced in
<br />section 7-14(b)(1).
<br />"Mean sea level" means, for purposes of the National Flood Insurance Program, the
<br />National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929, North American Vertical Datum
<br />(NAND) of 1988, or other datum, to which base flood elevations shown on a
<br />community's Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced.
<br />"New construction", for floodplain management purposes, means structures for which
<br />the "start of construction" commenced on or after November 1, 1979, and includes any
<br />subsequent improvements to such structures.
<br />"New manufactured home park or subdivision" means a manufactured home park or
<br />subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the
<br />manufactured homes are to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of
<br />utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of
<br />concrete pads) is completed on or after November 1, 1979.
<br />"Obstruction" includes, but is not limited to, any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee,
<br />dike, pile, abutment, protection, excavation, channelization, bridge, conduit, culvert,
<br />building, wire, fence, rock, gravel, refuse, fill, structure, vegetation or other material in,
<br />along, across or projecting into any watercourse which may alter, impede, retard or
<br />change the direction and/or velocity of the flow of water, or due to its location, its
<br />propensity to snare or collect debris carried by the flow of water, or its likelihood of
<br />being carried downstream.
<br />"One-hundred-year flood" or "100-year flood" -see "Base flood."
<br />"Program deficiency" means a defect in a community's floodplain management
<br />regulations or administrative procedures that impairs effective implementation of those
<br />floodplain management regulations.
<br />"Public safety and nuisance" as related to Article IV of this chapter, means that the
<br />granting of a floodplain variance must not result in anything which is injurious to safety
<br />or health of an entire community or neighborhood, or any considerable number of
<br />persons, or unlawfully obstructs the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of
<br />any navigable lake, or river, bay, stream, canal, or basin.
<br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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