§ 156-34. Conservation District.

The Conservation District boundaries shown on the accompanying are the flood hazard areas that were delineated by the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development for the National Flood Insurance Program, which was enacted in 1968 to protect house buyers who qualify for insurance. It has been recognized that those boundaries were prepared at a broad scale and are tentative and therefore subject to refinement. Until such more detailed maps, which may adjust the Department of Housing and Urban Development's flood hazard delineations or add others, are made available, the following conditions shall apply in this district:

A. 

No principal building shall be permitted by right.

B. 

Approval of any building, structure or use shall be as a conditional use by the Planning Board after the applicant has received approval from the Department of Environmental Conservation or other state or local agencies having jurisdiction over this matter at the time the application will be considered by the Town of Carmel. The construction of a single-family dwelling, permitted as a conditional use, shall be in accordance with the district regulations of the R Residential Zone. Such construction shall have the lowest floor, including basement, elevated to or above the base flood elevation.

C. 

In the absence of detailed maps delineating the flood hazard area by elevation, an applicant shall apply to the Department of Environmental Conservation or other state or local agency having jurisdiction over the delineation of the location of the flood hazard boundary.

Amended 3-20-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002