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aov 12 Yrr: 85 Addition to an existing building)" means any walled and roofed expansion to the perimeter of a building in which the addition is connected by a common load-bearing wall other than a fire wall. Any walled and roofed addition which is connected by a fire wall or is separated by independent perimeter load-bearing walls is new construction. "Area of shai_1cw flooding" mean:, desi~nace:: A.0 cr VC Zone on a community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) with base flood depths from one to three feet where a clearly defined channel does not exist, where the path of flooding is unpredictable and indeterminate, and where velocity flow may be evident. "Area of special flood hazard" is the land IT,. the flood plain within a community subject to a one percent or greater chance of flooding in any given year. "Base flood" means the flood having a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. "Basement" means that lowest level or story which has its floor subgrade on all sides. "Breakaway wall" means a wall that is not part of the structural support of the building and is intended through its design and construction to collapse under specific lateral loading forces without causing damage to the elevated portion of the building or the supporting foundation s JS`. E.L. n '..Lvukaw Lv w"111 .h IL11 1'. ivc a 'E", ..,<.0, :IG tc.'L..:c not less than 10 and no more than 20 pounds per square toot. A wall with loading resistance of more than 20 pounds per square foot requires a architect or professional engineer's certificate. "Building" means any structure built for support, shelter, or enclosure for any occupancy or storage. "Development" means any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations. "Elevated building" means a non-basement building built to have the lowest floor elevated above the around level by means of fill, solid foundation perimeter walls, pilings, columns (posts and piers), shear walls, or breakaway walls. "Existing manufactured home oark or manufactured home subdivision" means a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land divided into two or more manufactured home lots for rent or sale for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lot on which the manufactured home is to be affixed (including at a minimum, the installation of utilities, either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads, and the construction of streets) is completed before the effective date of this ordinance. -5-