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-3- even though the lower area is enclosed by means of breakaway walls if the breakaway walls meet the standards of Section 60.3(e(5) of the National Flood Insurance Program regulations. (8) Existing construction means, for the purposes of determinating rates, structures for which the "start of construction 11 commenced before the effective date of the FIRM or before January 1, 1975, for FIRMS effective before that date. "Existing construction 11 may also be referred to as lIexisting structures." (9) Existing manufactured home park or subdivision means a manufactured home park or subdivision for which the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including, at a minimum, the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads) was completed prior to the adoption of the city's original floodplain ordinance on November 25, 1974. (lO) Expansion to an existing manufactured home park or subdivision means the preparation of additional sites by the construction of facilities for servicing the lots on which the manufactured homes are to be affixed (including the installation of utilities, the construction of streets, and either final site grading or the pouring of concrete pads). (ll) Flood or flooding means a general and temporary condition of partial or complete inundation of normally dry land areas from: ( 1) The overflow of waters, or (2) The unusual and rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source. (12) Flood insurance rate map (FIRK) means an official map of a community, on which the Federal Emergency Management Agency has delineated both the areas of special flood hazards and the risk premium zones applicable to the community. (13) Flood insurance study is the official report provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The report contains flood profiles, water surface elevation of the base flood, as well as the flood boundary-floodway map. (14) Floodplain or floodprone area means any land area susceptible to being inundated by water from any source (see definition of "flooding"). (15) Flood protection system means those physical structural works for which funds have been authorized, appropriated, and expended, and which have been constructed specifically to modify flooding in order to reduce the extent of the areas within a community subject to a special flood hazard and the extent of the depths of associated flooding. Such a system includes dams, reservoirs, levees or dikes. These specialized flood. modifying works are those constructed in conformance with sound engineering standards. (16) Floodvay (regulatory floodway) means the channel of a river or other watercourse and the adjacent land areas that must be reserved in order to discharge the base flood without cumulatively increasing the water surface elevation more than one (1) foot. (17) Functionally dependent use means a use which cannot perform its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water. The term includes only docking facilities, port facilities that are necessary for the loading and unloading of cargo or passeng'3rs, and shipbuilding and ship repair facilities, but does not include long-term storage or related manufacturing facilities.