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Best available information <br />ln 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 />Brealeway wall <br />A wall 1l+at i5 +o1 p;"1 { iil t}re ltrrxir,rai sf+)lxxl of 1}}e burkling'and rs rnterrdr+i,l l}rroutllr rll <br />ele+tqR-a*xJ t.r-r+l5t*rt*-{"kil} t+r ei1alxe.urxfi:+, :pee#*{a+er.a1{e-}di*g {*:r.r+s,.wi*}x>t+l t-a+r*irr,1 <br />rla$ag€{€ the-elev**xl-1N)rl}e}F} a{ the-btrild}Rg-or srlpp€}r{inq fe*nda1"io+l,sys{e*r, <br />Esil-d.ing <br />See *5ltrl:]ute <br />&rll*dins C-o.i-e <br />Iite nq:l cq1qq11lly.r{lerliv€ v€rsrr}il5 edltro-tr p-l l-he lt{-ett}ttiqtal -B-urldilg Locie ottd !!te <br />B-u.ildLrtg Cqd.q (liirr i!il. <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 Chapter 17.61 KCO 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 purposesr a non-basement building which has its lowest elevated floor raised <br />above ground level by foundation walls, shear walls, posl piers, pilings, or columns. <br />Elevation Certificate <br />The officialform (FEMA Form B1-31) 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 regu lations. <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 />-l-*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.