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<br />. <br /> <br />Appeal - means a request for a review of the <br />( Local Administrator's) interpretation of any provision <br />of this ordinance or a request for a variance. <br /> <br />Applicant - Any individual, partnership, corporation, <br />association, company, or public body, including the <br />federal government, or any political subdivision, agency, <br />corporation, or instrumentality of the state applying for <br />a floodplain development permit pursuant to these <br />regulations. <br /> <br />Area of Shallow Floodinq - means, for the purposes of the <br />National Flood Insurance Program, a designated AO or AH <br />Zone on the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). The base <br />flood depths range from one to three feet; a clearly <br />defined channel does not exist; the path of flooding is <br />unpredictable and indeterminate; and velocity flow may be <br />evident. <br /> <br />Area of Special Flood Hazard - means, for the purposes of <br />the National Flood Insurance Program, the land in the <br />floodplain within a community subject to a one percent or <br />greater chance of flooding in any given year. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Base flood - A flood having one percent chance of being <br />equalled or exceeded in any given year. The term is used <br />interchangeably with "Intermediate Regional Flood," "one <br />hundred year flood," and "one percent chance flood." <br /> <br />Channel - A natural or artificial watercourse of <br />perceptible extent with definite bed and banks which <br />confines and conducts continuously or intermittently <br />flowing water. <br /> <br />Desiqnated Floodplain District (DFD) - That area which has <br />been designated as a floodplain by official action of the <br />(local qoverninq bodv) which is subject to flooding as a <br />result of the base flood, and for which water surface <br />elevations have been established by a detailed engineering <br />study that has been designated and approved by an official <br />action of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, as <br />required by state statutes. These areas may be delineated <br />by engineering studies performed by the Federal Insurance <br />Administration or other Federal, state, or local agencies. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Development - Any construction or activity that changes <br />the basic character or the topography of the land on which <br />the construction or activity occurs, including, but not <br />limited to, any manmade change to improved or unimproved <br />real estate, construction or substantial improvement of <br />buildings or other structures; mining, dredging, filling, <br />grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations; dam, <br />wall, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, projection, <br />excavation, channel rectification, bridge, culvert, fence, <br />fill. <br /> <br />-3- <br />