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(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to alleviate recurring flood damage, promote and protect the public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in specific areas by methods and provisions designed for:

(1) Restricting or prohibiting uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;

(2) Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;

(3) Controlling the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel floodwaters;

(4) Controlling filling, grading, dredging and other development which may increase flood damage; and

(5) Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert floodwaters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas.

(b) The city's enactment or enforcement of this chapter shall not be construed for the benefit of any individual person or group of persons other than the general public. In the event of a conflict between the intent of this subsection and any other provision of this chapter, this subsection shall govern insofar as applicable. (Ord. 2129, § 2, 2021.)