Sacramento County Zoning Code § 903-02 Basis

A. The areas of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the most recent effective Flood Insurance Study (FIS) for the County of Sacramento and accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps and their subsequent amendments and/or revisions, are hereby adopted by reference and declared a part of this ordinance. This FIS and FIRM are the minimum area of applicability of this ordinanceand are on file in the office of the Sacramento County Floodplain Administrator, 827 7th Street, Room 430, Sacramento, CA 95814.
B. The area of applicability of this ordinance may be supplemented by the Floodplain Administrator declaring Local Flood Hazard Areas. A map of Local Flood Hazard Areas is on file in the Office of the Floodplain Administrator.
C. Floodplain maps are a general graphic representation of a flood insurance study. If the FIRM and the ground data disagree, the Floodplain Administrator will determine the base flood elevation for flood protection purposes.
D. The Flood Insurance Rate Map, effective August 16, 2012, shows the area known as East Walnut Grove (RD554) as (provisionally) protected by levees. Any new construction or substantial improvement in the area protected by RD554 levees shall require the recordation of a levee risk disclosure declaration in a form approved by County Counsel. This subsection shall expire upon FEMA accreditation of the levee system or an effective FIRM mapping the area in a special flood hazard area.