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Highest Adjacent Grade
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Definition/Description NFIP Necessity Guidance Relevant Keywords and phrases Definition/Description
The highest all-natural elevation of your floor surface previous to construction up coming to the proposed partitions of a framework. In AO Zones,Office 2007, all new building and considerable enhancements of residential structures shall have the lowest flooring which includes basement elevated previously mentioned the highest adjacent grade a minimum of as high since the depth range specified in feet within the community's Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM); or a minimum of two ft if no depth number is specified. All new building and substantial improvements of non-residential structures shall meet the above demands or, with each other with attendant utility and sanitary services, be floodproofed to your same elevation.

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NFIP Requirement
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Guidance
IS-9 Managing Floodplain Improvement By way of The Nationwide Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) (Pages 5-44, 5-45) (PDF 8MB, TXT 1MB) (total document)

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Relevant Keywords and phrases
Zone AO
Elevation Certificate

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