Ordinance - 1575ORDINANCE NO. 1575
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
• WEST COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE BUILDING
CODE TO REGULATE CONSTRUCTION' WITHIN FLOOD
HAZARD AREAS AND ESTABLISHED FLOODWAYS.
(Set Public Hearing for February 14, 1983)
WHEREAS, The City of West Covina has applied for participation
in the National Flood Insurance Program; and
WHEREAS, to remain eligible for the National Flood Insurance
Program there is a requirement that Flood Plain Management Regula-
tions be established; and
.WHEREAS, the City of West Covina has adopted the Uniform
Building Code as of February 22, 1982.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina
does ordain the following:
SECTION 1. Amend the 1979 Uniform Building Code.Section
302 (a), adding item No. 8 to regulate construction within
flood hazard areas and within established floodways, as follows:
A. Buildings are not permitted within an area deter-
mined by the City Engineer to be subject to flood hazard by reason
of -inundation, overflow or erosion.
The placement of buildings and other structures (including
walls and fences) within such areas shall be such that water or
mudflow will not be a hazard to the building or adjacent
property. Subject to Section 2 of this Ordinance, this prohibi-
tion shall not apply if provisions are made to eliminate such
hazard to the satisfaction of the City.Engineer by providing
adequate drainage facilities, protective walls, suitable fills,
raising of floor elevation of the building or by a combination of
these or other methods. The City, in the application of this
Ordinance, shall enforce as a minimum, the current Federal Flood
Plain Management Regulations defined in Chapter 1, Parts 59 and
60, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Flood Insurance
Program.
B. A person shall not perform any work within an
established floodway if in the judgment of the City Engineer,
such work increases the flood hazard to adjacent properties by
either increasing the capital flood water surface elevation, by
deflection of flows, by increasing bank erosion or by increasing
flow velocities. Such work may be performed within an established
floodway where provisions are made to the satisfaction of the City
Engineer to avoid any such increase in flood hazard. The City
Engineer may issue a permit for said work.
• SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as
required by law.
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PASSED AND APPROVED this 14th day of February , 1983.
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
I, HELENE M. MOONEY, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1575
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regular meeting of the City Council on the 10th day of
January , 1983. That, thereafter, said Ordinance was duly
adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on
the 14th day of February 1983, by the following vote
of Council, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen:
NOES: Councilmen:
ABSENT: Councilmen:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
0a.,-Vn no
ity A for ey
Bacon, Tennant, Shearer, Chappell, Tice
None
None
JE-
City Clerk
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CERT IFICAT ION
.:�. State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
City.of West Covina )
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of
West Covina., State of California., do hereby certify
that a true and accurate copy of Ordinance No. Isis
was published, pursuant to law, in the West Covina.
Tribune, a newspaper of genera.l.circula.tion published
and circulated in the City of West Covina.
601--,
JanetBerry,Deputy C ty Clerk City of West Covina, California