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<br />(4) Minimize prolonged business interruptions; <br /> <br />(5) Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas <br />mains, electric, telephone and sewer lines, streets and bridges located in <br />floodplains; <br /> <br />(6) Help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and <br />development of flood-prone areas in such a manner as to minimize future flood <br />blight areas; and <br /> <br />(7) Insure that potential buyers are notified that property is in a flood area <br /> <br />SECTION D. METHODS OF REDUCING FLOOD LOSSES <br /> <br />In order to accomplish its purposes, this ordinance uses the following methods: <br /> <br />(1) Restrict or prohibit uses that are dangerous to health, safety or <br />property in times of flood, or cause excessive increases in flood heights or <br />velocities; <br /> <br />(2) Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve <br />such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial <br />construction; <br /> <br />(3) Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and <br />natural protective barriers, which are involved in the accommodation of flood <br />waters; <br /> <br />(4) Control mUng, grading, dredging and other development which may <br />increase flood damage; <br /> <br />(5) Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will <br />unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to other <br />lands. <br /> <br />ARTICLE 2 <br /> <br />2 <br />