Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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overflow of inland or tidal waters. not limited to emergency preparedness plans, flood
2. The unusual and rapid accumulation or control works, and floodplain management
runoff of surface waters from any source. regulations.
B. The collapse or subsidence of land along a
shore of a lake or other body of water as a Floodplain management regulations. Zoning
result of erosion or undermining caused by ordinances, subdivision regulations, building codes,
waves or currents of water exceeding health regulations, special purpose ordinances
anticipated cyclical levels or suddenly caused by (such as a floodplain ordinance, grading ordinance,
an unusually high water level in a natural body and erosion control ordinance), and other
of water, accompanied by a severe storm, or by applications of police power. The term describes
an unanticipated force of nature, such as a flash such state or local regulations, in any combination
flood or an abnormal tidal surge, or by some thereof, which provide standards for the purpose of
similarly unusual and unforeseeable event flood damage prevention and reduction.
which results in flooding as defined above.