FLOOD09598

• County: Huerfano
• Community: Huerfano County
• Stream Name: Arkansas River and Tributaries
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Huerfano County Regulations for Areas and Activities of State Interest
• Date: 6/1/1976
• Prepared For: Huerfano County
• Prepared By: Andrew Nigrini
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Miscellaneous

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CHAPTER 3

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GEOLOGIC HAZARD AREA REGULATIONS

Article 1.

General and Introductory provisions

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Purpose and Intent

The purpose and intent of the regulations contained in this
chapter shall be to:

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(1) Minimize significant hazards to public health and safety
or to property in a designated geologic hazard;

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(2) Promote safe use of geologic hazard areas;

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(3) Reduce the impact of geologic hazards on life and property
by:

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(a) Prohibiting certain land uses which are dangerous
to life or property in geologic hazard area;

(b) Restricting the land uses which would be hazardous
to the public health and safety or property in
geologic hazard areas;

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(c) Restricting the land uses which are particularly
vulnerable to geologic hazards so as to alleviate
hardship and reduce the demands for public expen-
ditures for relief and protection;

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(d) Requiring land uses permitted in geologic hazard
areas, including public facilities which serve such
uses, to be protected from geologic hazards by pro-
viding for geologic hazard investigation and the
avoidance of or mitigation of such hazard impacts
at the time of initial construction;

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(4) Protect geologic hazard area occupants or users from the
impacts of geologic hazards which may be caused by their
own, or other, land use and which is or may be undertaken
without full realization of the danger by:

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(a) Regulating the area in which, or the manner in which,
structures designed for human occupancy may be con-
structed so as to prevent danger to human life or
property within such structures;

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