TOWN OF GRANBY ZONING REGULATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS

8.18.4 OBJECTIVES
SECTION 8
SPECIAL REGULATIONS
To help maintain a stable tax base by providing for the sound use and
development of flood hazard areas in such a manner as to minimize
flood damage and flood blight areas;
To insure that potential buyers are notified that property is in a flood
hazard area;
To prevent increase in flood heights that could increase flood damage
and result in conflicts between property owners;
To ensure that those who occupy the flood hazard areas assume
responsibility for their actions; and
To discourage development in a floodplain if there is any practicable
alternative to locate the activity, use or structure outside of the
floodplain.
In order to accomplish its purposes, this Regulation includes objectives,
methods and provisions that:
a. Restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety and
property due to flood or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging
increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;
b. Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities that serve such
uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial
construction;
c. Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural
protective barriers that are involved in the accommodation of flood
waters;
d. Control filling, grading, dredging and other development which may
increase erosion or flood damage; and
e. Prevent or regulate the construction of barriers or obstructions which will
unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards to
other lands.
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