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<br /> <br />comprehensive planning and land development <br />controls to innovative techniques that employ cluster <br />development arrangements, open space preservation, <br />and performance-based setbacks. <br /> <br /> <br />Chapter 3. Planning Tools <br />for Flood Hazard Areas <br /> <br /> <br />Comprehensive planning, zoning, and subdivision <br />control are a local government's primary land-use <br />planning tools. They can serve as a foundation for the <br />community to address floodplain development issues. <br />Floodplain regulations, which are a community's <br />zoning ordinances, subdivision regulations, building <br />and health codes, and special purpose ordinances (e.g., <br />floodplain, erosion, and drainage ordinances), build on <br />that foundation by providing standnrds that prevent <br />and reduce flood damage. <br />This chapter describes hovv land-use planning, <br />conservation, and growth management techniques can <br />be put to work to meet the goal of reducing flood losses <br />and protecting the natural functions of floodplains. The <br />techniques described here range from conventional <br /> <br />, <br />! <br />, <br />6 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />~ <br />" <br /> <br />c <br />o <br />~ <br />~ <br />" <br />, <br />u <br /> <br />" <br />~ <br />. <br />~ <br /> <br />" <br />, <br />, <br /> <br />, <br />t <br />iJ5 <br /> <br />LOCAL COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING <br />The comprehensive plan (sometimes called a general <br />plan, land development plan, or master plan) is a <br />collection of policies on hmv the community \-vill grmv, <br />change, and look in the future. The plan document is <br />the resuIt of a planning process that involves many city <br />departments, business people, landmvners, developers, <br />and citizens. Out of the process emerge policies that <br />reHect local values and concerns. These policies are <br />implemented through land development controls, <br /> <br />in tlzis example, the wide floodplain is devoted to wetlands, parks, and street fnll1tage while homes are <br />kept OH Iwtural/zigh grou/1(! outside the floodplain. <br /> <br />15 <br />