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hazards of state and local interest, that flooding may cause serious damage to properties and subject residents of such areas to hazards, that the occupation of such areas may cause the loss of human life and the destruction of property, and that the imprudent use and occupation of these areas will pose a continuing and greater future danger to life and property unless appropriate regulations are adopted concerning the use and occupation of such hazards. Sec. 17.56.040.- Purpose. A. The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare; to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards; and to promote wise use of the floodplain. B. This floodplain chapter has been established with the following purposes intended: I. To reduce the hazard of floods to life and property by: a. Prohibiting uses which are dangerous to life or property and/or which are hazardous to the public in time of flood; b. Restricting uses which are particularly susceptible to flood damage, so as to alleviate hardship and eliminate demands for public expenditures for relief and protection; and c. Requiring permitted floodplain uses, including public facilities which serve such uses, to be protected against floods by providing floodproofing and general flood protection at the time of initial construction; 2. To alert floodplain occupants or potential occupants to flood hazards and damages which may result from their own, or other, land use and which are or may be undertaken without full realization of the danger by: a. Regulating the manner in which structures designed for human occupancy may be constructed; b. Regulating the method of construction of water supply systems, sanitation systems and other utilities so as to prevent disease, contamination and unsanitary conditions; and c. Delineating and describing areas that could be inundated by floods so as to protect individuals from purchasing floodplain lands for purposes which are not in fact suitable; 3. To protect the public from the burden of avoidable financial expenditures for flood control and relief by regulating all uses within the floodplain areas so as to produce a method of construction and a pattern of development which will minimize the probability of damage to property and loss of life or injury to the inhabitants of the flood hazard areas; 4. To protect the storage capacity of floodplains and to assure retention of sufficient Ordinance No.1625,Series 2012 Page 11 of 31 11