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- Basement: Any area of the building, including any
sunken room or sunken portion of a room, having its floor
below ground level on all sides.
- Date of Construction: The date that the building
permit was issued, provided the actual start of construction,
repair, reconstruction, or improvement was within 180 days of
the permit date.
- Dwelling: A building designed for use as a residence
for no more than 4 families or a single-family unit in
building under a condominium form of ownership.
- Elevated Building: A building that has no basement
and that has its lowed elevated floor raised above ground
level by foundation walls, shear walls, posts, piers,
pilings, or columns. Solid foundation perimeter walls are
not an acceptable means of elevating buildings in V and VE
zones.
- Enclosure: That portion of an elevated building
below the lowest elevated floor that is either partially or
fully shut in by rigid walls.
- Non-residential: Includes, but is not limited to:
small business concerns, churches, schools, farm buildings
(including grain bins and silos), pool houses, clubhouses,
recreational buildings, mercantile structures, agricultural
and industrial structures, warehouses, hotels and motels
with normal room rentals for less than 6 mos. duration, and
nursing homes.
- Other Residential: Hotels or motels where the normal
occupancy of a guest is 6 months or more; a tourist home or
rooming house which has more than 4 roomers. A residential
building (excluding hotels and motels with normal room
rentals for less than 6 mos. durations) containing more than
4 dwelling units. Incidental occupancies such as office,
professional private school, or studio occupancy, are
permitted if the total area of such incidental occupancies
are limited to less than 25 % of the total floor area within
the building.
- Submit-for-Rate: An application for flood insurance
on a building for which no risk rate is published in the
Flood Insurance Manual. Insurance coverage can be obtained
only after the NFIP has approved the application and has
established the risk premium rate.
- 2-4 Family Residence: A residential building (excluding hotels and motels with normal room rentals for less than 6 mos. duration) containing no more than 4 dwelling units. Incidental occupancies such as office, professional, private school, or studio space are permitted if the total area of such occupancies is limited to less than 25% of the total flood area within the building.
- Unfinished Area: An enclosed are that is used only for the parking of vehicles, building access, or storage purposes and that does not meet the definition of a finished (habitable) area. Sheetrock (drywall) used for fire protection is permitted in unfinished areas.
- Variance: A grant of relief by a participating community from the terms of its floodplain management regulations.
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