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.Y (APPLICATION—FLOOD VARIAN! vj,R _ 01 — 0 2 1. There is good and sufficient cause for the Flood Variance. Elevating the hangar will require ramping for the aircraft. Due to the flat grade required for the aircraft to safely enter the hangar, the ramp would extend out a significant distance. The hangar will, naturally, be located in an area of the airport with several existing service facilities nearby to serve the aircraft, and relocation to another area is not allowable. The extended ramp would create a safety hazard for aircraft accessing the service facilities or the hangar, with the potential for disastrous collisions. 2. Failure to grant the Flood Variance would result in exceptional hardship to the applicant. Due to the constraints from existing airport facilities, placing the ramp into the proposed hangar in a manner, which does not create a safety hazard, is not ossible. It is doubtful that Federal aviation officials and local airport management would allow the construction of a facility with the potential for catastrophic incidents. Therefore, without a flood variance, construction of additional hangar facilities at the airport will not occur. ii I The Flood Variance will not result in increased flood height, additional !I threats to public safety, extraordinary public expense, create nuisances, cause fraud on /or victimization of the public, or conflict with existing local Iaws or ordinances. The hangar will be located in an area of shallow, low velocity, sheet flow flooding. Floodwater will gradually flow around the building without affecting flood elevations in surrounding areas. Without the ramp, the project will not create additional threats to public safety. This project will not create public expense or nuisances with or without the variance. There will not be any victimization of the public by building this hangar on airport property at the same elevation as other structures in the area, nor will the project conflict with existing San Joaquin County ordinances. 4. The Flood Variance is the minimum necessary,considering the flood hazard, to afford relief. Granting of the Flood Variance will not result in a significant deviation from the Flood Zone elevation, due to the project location within an AO flood zone of one-foot depth. However, the variance will eliminate the safety hazard created by the ramp needed if the hangar were to be elevated. The vented openings will not be required because the bottom of the vents will be at the estimated flood depth, and no flow through the vents will occur. In addition, the building is a corrugated steel structure and is not watertight. As floodwaters i -