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In order to accomplish its purposes, this chapter includes methods and provisions for:

A. Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to the public health, safety, and welfare as well as public and private property, due to water or development hazards; or which result in increased damages to development or increases in flood heights or velocities;

B. Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of start of construction;

C. Controlling the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help to accommodate natural flood storage potential or the channelization of floodwaters;

D. Controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other development that may increase flood damage; and

E. Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers that unnaturally divert floodwaters, or that may increase flood hazards in other areas. ((O)21-06, 11/17/2021; (O)17-04, 04/05/2017; (O)05-35, 10/05/2005)