Duties of the Director pertaining to floodplain development regulations.
Columbus City Codes § 1150.17
in effect1150.17 - Duties of the Director pertaining to floodplain development regulations.
The Director shall grant or deny approval in accordance with all provisions of the Columbus City Codes. The duties and responsibilities include:
A. Review applications to determine that requirements of this Columbus City Code have been satisfied;
B. Reviewing applications to assure that they contain the necessary permits from authorized federal, state or local governmental reviewing agencies. It is the applicant's responsibility for obtaining the necessary permits.
C. Reviewing applications to determine if the proposed development is located within a designated floodway and assure that encroachment provisions of this chapter are met for development proposed in the floodway.
D. Causing the inspection by an applicant of development projects before, during, and after construction to ensure compliance with all provisions of the Columbus City Codes.
E. Causing the notification, by an applicant, of adjacent communities, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water, prior to any alteration or relocation of a watercourse, and submitting evidence of such notification to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. A watercourse is considered altered if any change occurs within its banks.
F. Maintaining submitted engineering documentation that the flood carrying capacity of the altered or relocated portion of said watercourse shall not be diminished.
G. Requiring the maintenance necessary to assure the flood carrying capacity of altered or relocated portions of watercourses is not diminished.
H. Using elevations delineated in the flood elevation profile from the Flood Insurance Study, interpret special flood hazard area boundary locations in instances of conflict between mapped boundaries and actual field conditions.
(Ord. No. 1177-2010, § 1, 9-27-2010)
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