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Best available information <br />In the absence of official flood insurance rate map data, communities can use data from <br />other federal, state, or other sources provided this data has either been generated using <br />technically defensible methods or is based on reasonable historical analysis and experience. <br />Breakaway wall <br />A-Wa 44kiat45 tPal:4 4441,e tl+P 1XWEiP-j9 and +S MI-E+nded &WOU(1h <br />dae��ge-�•if►e-e+���•-pca�'t�f��#-xlaa bu;l���g ea �j�nrr4rag-��u�r�ti�3r�-sy�Eax�: <br />B�.rilc�ing <br />_ See "Strurtuie. <br />Buildfng-Code -_ _.. <br />fhe most ._cuirent waw edition of tlse IniLgrn-ptionalBui'dii�Ccacie ar�d..tl�t <br />4ntfrna11ona[.Resident i al C�de.as.ac�r�p�?c; end �mer�ci�a,toy il�c,��e-ef.Washington State <br />Suildino_Codg Council <br />Critical facility <br />A facility for which even a slight chance of flooding might be too great. Critical facilities <br />include, but are not limited to, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, police, fire and emergency <br />response installations, installations which produce, use or store hazardous materials or <br />hazardous waste, and certain service facilities for utilities and special utilities (as defined <br />under Chapler 17.1 ICC) as determined by the administrator. <br />Development <br />Any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including but not limited to <br />buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling <br />operations or storage of equipment or materials located within the areas of special flood <br />hazard. <br />Elevated building <br />For insurance purposes, a non -basement building which has its lowest elevated floor raised <br />above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, post, piers, pilings, or columns. <br />Elevation Certificate <br />The official form (FEMA Form 81-31) used to track development, provide elevation <br />information necessary to ensure compliance with community floodplain management <br />ordinances, and determine the proper insurance premium rate with Section B completed by <br />Community Officials. <br />Existing manufactured home park or subdivision <br />A manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing <br />the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the <br />installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring <br />of concrete pads) is completed before the effective date of the adopted floodplain <br />management regulations. <br />Expansion to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision <br />The preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on <br />which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the <br />construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads). <br />Flood (or "flooding") <br />A general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land <br />areas from the unusual and rapid accumulation of runoff or surface waters from- <br />