9633 Round Mountain Rd, Bakersfield, CA 93308

Floodplain Primary District

The purpose of the Floodplain Primary (FPP) district is to protect the public health and safety and minimize property damage by designating areas that are subject to flooding with high velocities or depths and by establishing reasonable restrictions on land use in such areas. The FPP district shall be applied to those areas lying within the floodway as shown on the Flood Boundary Floodway Map (FBFM) or within the designated floodway on the state of California's Board of Reclamation's Kern River Designated Floodway Studies, or other maps where engineering studies have been made and adopted by the county board of supervisors. Uses in the FPP district are limited to those low intensity uses not involving buildings, structures and other activities that might adversely affect or be adversely affected by flow of water in the floodway.; The degree of flood protection required by this article is considered reasonable for regulatory purposes and is based on engineering and scientific methods of study. Larger floods may occur on rare occasions or flood heights may be increased by manmade or natural causes, such as bridge openings restricted by debris. This chapter does not imply that areas outside the floodplain districts or land uses permitted within such districts will be free from flooding or flood damages. This chapter shall not create liability on the part of the county of Kern or any officer or employee thereof for any flood damage that may result from reliance on this chapter or any administrative decisions lawfully made hereunder.