2023-14ORDINANCE NO.2023-14
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 110 (ZONING) TO AMEND PORTIONS OF ARTICLES
AND SECTIONS CONTAINED THEREIN, INCLUDING SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND
DEFINITIONS.
BE IT ORDAINED, by the City Council of the City of Fairfax, Virginia, that Chapter 110, Article
4, §4.15.5, of the Code of the City of Fairfax, Virginia, is hereby amended as follows:
§4.15. Floodplain Regulations
§4.15.5. Establishment of special flood hazard districts
A. Description of special flood hazard districts
The various special flood hazard districts shall include the special flood hazard areas. The basis for the
delineation of these districts shall be the flood insurance study and the FIRM for the city prepared by
FEMA, dated June 2�6 November 16, 2023, and any subsequent revisions or amendments thereto
BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, by the City Council of the City of Fairfax, Virginia, that Chapter
110, Article 9, §9.3, of the Code of the City of Fairfax, Virginia, is hereby amended as follows:
§9.3. Defined Terms
REPETITIVE LOSS STRUCTURE: A building covered by a contract for flood insurance that has incurred
flood -related damages on two occasions in a 10-year period, in which the cost of the repair, on the average.
ualed or exceeded 25 percent of the market value of the structure at the time of each such flood event; and
at the time of the second incidence of flood -related damage, the contract for flood insurance contains
increased cost of compliance coverage.
REPETITIVE LOSS STRUCTURE,, SEVERE: A structure that: (a) Is covered under a contract for flood
insurance made available under the NFIP, and (b) Has incurred flood related damgUe - W For which 4 or
more sqparate claims paMents have been made under flood insurance coverage with the amount of each
such claim exceeding- $5,000, and with the cumulative amount of such claims payments exceeding $20,0007
or ii For which at least 2 separate claims payments have been made under such coverage, with the
cumulative amount of such claims exceeding the market value of the insured structure.
PUBLIC HEARING: October 24, 2023
ENACTED: October 24, 2023
ATTEST:
City "Clerk
VOTE:
Mayor Read Aye
Councilmember Bates Aye
Councilmember Doyle Feingold Aye
Councilmember Greenfield Aye
Councilmember Lim Aye
Councilmember Ross Aye
Councilmember Stehle Aye
Mayor
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