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(1) Protect human life and health; (2) Maximize the cost effectiveness of expenditures of public money for flood control projects; (3) Minimize the need for rescue and relief efforts associated with flooding and generally undertaken at the expense of the general public; (4) Minimize prolonged business interruptions; (5) Minimize damage to public facilities and utilities such as water and gas mains, electric telephone and sewer lines, streets, and bridges located in special flood hazard areas; (6) Help maintain a stable tax base for the city yproviding for the organize d development of all areas in such a manner as to minimize future areas of flooding; and (7) Ensure that potential property owners are notified that property is in a special flood hazard area. Sec. 39.014. Methods of Reducing Flood Losses. To accomplish its purpose, this Article uses the following methods: (1) Restricts or prohibits uses that are dangerous to health, safety property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities; (2) Requires that uses vulnerable to floods including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage throughout their intended life span; (3) Controls the alteration of natural floodplains, their protective barriers and stream channels which hem accommodate or channel flood waters; (4) Prevents the construction of barriers which will divert floodwaters and subject other lands to greater flood hazards; and (5) Controls development which would cause greater erosion or potential flood damage such as rg adin , dredging filling, and excavation. Sec. 39.015. Definitions. In this Chapter: