New Franklin Floodway ordinance (§ 415.190)

Located within areas of special flood hazard established in Article III, Section 415.050 are areas designated as floodways. Since the floodway is an extremely hazardous area due to the velocity of floodwaters that carry debris and potential projectiles, the following provisions shall apply:

1. The community shall select and adopt a regulatory floodway based on the principle that the area chosen for the regulatory floodway must be designed to carry the waters of the base flood without increasing the water surface elevation of that flood more than one (1) foot at any point.

2. The community shall prohibit any encroachments, including fill, new construction, substantial improvements and other development, within the adopted regulatory floodway unless it has been demonstrated through hydrologic and hydraulic analyses performed in accordance with standard engineering practice that the proposed encroachment would not result in any increase in flood levels within the community during the occurrence of the base flood discharge.

3. If Article V, Section 415.190(2) is satisfied, all new construction and substantial improvements shall comply with all applicable flood hazard reduction provisions of Article V.

4. In unnumbered A Zones, the community shall obtain, review and reasonably utilize any base flood elevation or floodway data currently available from Federal, State or other sources as set forth in Article V, Section 415.160(B).