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square foot for every two (2) square feet of enclosed area subject to flooding. The bottom of all such openings shall be no higher than one (1) foot above grade. b. Such enclosed space shall be usable for the parking of vehicles and building access. q. Manufactured home - means a structure, transportable in one (1) or more sections, which is built on a permanent chassis and is designed for use with or without a permanent foundation when attached to the required utilities. The term "manufactured home" does not include a "recreational vehicle". r. New 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) is completed on or after the effective date of this Ordinance. s. Recreational vehicle - means a vehicle which is (1) built on a single chassis; (2) four hundred (400) square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projections; (3) designed to be self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and, (4) designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling, but as quarters for recreational camping, travel or seasonal use. t. Regulatory flood - means the flood having a one percent (1 %) probability of being equaled or exceeded in any given year, as calculated by a method and procedure which is acceptable to and approved by the Indiana Natural Resources Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The regulatory flood elevation at any location is as defined in Section V of this Ordinance. u. SFHA or Special Flood Hazard Area - means those lands within the jurisdiction of the Town that are subject to inundation by the regulatory flood. The SFHAs of the Town are generally identified as such on the Flood Insurance Rate Map of the Town prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and dated November 2, 1983. The SFHAs of those parts of unincorporated Morgan County that are within the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the Town or that may be annexed into the Town are generally identified as such on the Flood Insurance Rate Map prepared for Morgan County by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Dated June 1, 1981. v. Structure - means a structure that is principally above ground and is enclosed by walls and a roof. The term includes a gas or liquid storage tank, a manufactured home or a prefabricated building. The term also includes recreational vehicles to be installed on a site for more than one hundred eighty (180) days. '-