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DANE COUNTY CODE 11 - 11 of this ordinance. unnecessary hardship. A variance: (3) Board of adjustment. 1. Shall be consistent with the spirit and intent of this flood plain zoning ordinance. (a) In addition to the provisions of Sec. 10.26, the board shall forward a copy of all 2. Shall not permit any change in decisions made under this section (11.08- established flood elevations or profiles. 11,19 to the appropriate district office of the Department of Natural Resources. 3. Shall not be granted for a use that is common to a group of adjacent lots or (b) Mapping disputes. The following premises. (In such a case, the zoning procedure shall be used by the Board of ordinance would have to be amended Adjustment in disputes of a flood plain through proper procedures). • zoning district boundary. 4. Shall not be granted unless i't is shown 1. Flood district boundaries. When the that the variance will not be contrary to the location of the flood plain or floodway public interest or damaging to the rights of district boundary is established by other persons or property values in the area. experience flood maps or engineering - studies pursuant to Section 11,03 2), 5. Shall not be granted for actions which 11.09(2), 11.102) of this ordinance, the flood require an amendment to the flood plain elevations or "flood profiles" for the point in zoning ordinance. question shall be the governing factor in locating the district boundary. If no 6. Shall not have the effect of allowing or elevation or profiles are available to the expanding a use or structure which is board, any other available evidence may be prohibited in that zoning district by the flood examined. plain zoning ordinance. 2. In all cases, the person contesting the 7. Shall not be granted solely on the basis location of the district boundary shall be of economic gain or loss. given a reasonable opportunity to present his case to the board of adjustment and if he 8. Shall not be granted for self-created chooses, submit his own technical evidence. hardship. The board shall not allow deviations from • the boundary line as mapped unless the (4) Procedures ,/or determining floodway evidence clearly and conclusively and flood fringe limits. establishes that the mapped location of the line is incorrect, approval has been granted (a) Applicability. When any developments by the Department of Natural Resources, are proposed within a general flood plain and an official letter of map amendment has district, a determination shall be made to been issued by the Federal Insurance establish the boundaries of the floodway and Administration of HUD. determine whether floodway or flood fringe uses apply, and, where applicable, to (c) Variance. Any deviation from the determine the regional flood elevation. • standards of this ordinance, for which a permit has been denied by the zoning (b) Upon receiving an application for administrator, may be allowed only upon development, the zoning administrator written request for a variance submitted to shall: the zoning administrator, public hearing, and issuance of a variance form by the board 1. Require the applicant to submit, at the of adjustment. The board may authorize in time of application, two copies of an aerial ( ' specific cases such variance from the terms photograph, or a plan which accurately of the ordinance as will not be contrary to the locates the flood plain proposal with respect public interest where, owing to special to the flood plain district limits, channel of conditions, a literal enforcement of the stream, existing flood plain developments, provisions of this ordinance would result in together with all pertinent information such