Redding, CA Environmental Rules: Flood Zones (2026)

51 layers seven levels of protection onto property in and along Redding's waterways: it generally bars development in the floodway, allows only limited uses in the flood fringe, imposes lesser standards on land contiguous to the flood fringe, adds scenic-corridor review, and requires every development permit in the district to be checked for flood safety and flood-carrying capacity before approval. Inside the floodway and flood fringe, uses such as storage of buoyant, explosive, or toxic materials, parking or storing recreational vehicles, fences or walls other than street-arterial walls with flood openings, and swimming pool equipment are flatly prohibited unless the site is raised to the flood protection elevation through an approved encroachment application.

A short list of uses is permitted outright without a use permit, including emergency actions ordered by the city manager, removal of flood-deposited debris under a grading permit, normal maintenance of existing channels and levees, and bridges engineered to pass a hundred-year flood without impeding floodwaters. 080. Outside the floodway and flood fringe but still inside the FP district, new construction must set back thirty feet from the Sacramento River or fifteen feet from any creek, with the lowest floor at least one foot above the base floodplain elevation.