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"Appeal" means a request for a review of the local administrator's interpretation. of any provision of this chapter or a request for a variance. "Area.of shallow flooding" means _a designated AO 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 in 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. "Building".-.a_structure. designed for the housing, enclosure or_shelter. of persons, animals- or property of any kind. "Development"- means. any._man-made. change to improved of unimpr.owed_._real estate,._ including but not limited to buildings_ or..other. s.truc.turesly mining, dredging, filling, grading., paving, excavation or drilling operations. "Flo.od'.'. or . ' flooding".means. a general and temporary con- dition_of-. .partial or.complete inundation of normally dry land areas from: (1) The overflow of inland or tidal waters; (2) The unusual. and.-_ rapid._accumulation of runoff or surface waters from any source. "Flood.. Hazard.Boundary_ Map". (FHBM) and Flood Insurance .Rate Map (FIRM)" means__ an. official map of a community on which. the Flood._Ins.urance Study,..has delineated the flood . hazard boundaries and. -the zones.. establishing insurance rates .ap.,p.licable to the community. "Flood Insurance Study" is the official report provided by the Federal Insurance Administration. The report contains flood profiles, as-well as the Flood Boundary-Floodway Map and .the water surface elevation of the base flood. "Floodway" means. the_ channel- of a river or other water- course_ and. the_ _adjacent. land _ar as that must be reserved ...in order.-to discharge the.-.base. flood without cumulatively -increasing the water surface elevation more than one foot. "Lowest floor" . means the lowest floor of the lowest _. .. enclosed.. area (including .-.basement) . An unfinished or . flood. ..r.esistant _enclosure.,,,- :.usa.ble solely for parking of vehicles, building acces.s.. or._ storage, in an area other than_ a_ basement_ area, _.is- not -considered a building's low.es.t..floor,_ provided that-such enclosure is not built so ..as_ to .render_. the structu.r.e. .in violation of the applicable non-elevation..design- requirements of this ordinance. "Mean_. sea level". means,- for- purposes of the National Flood . Insurance Program, the- National._. Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929. .or other,datum-, .-.to which base flood ele- .vations- shown on a . community's_ .Flood Insurance Rate Map are referenced. 2