Granville County, NC Hurricane Preparedness: Flood Elevation (2026)

Sec. 32-330(1) requires that "new construction and substantial improvement of any residential structure (including manufactured homes)" have the reference level, including the basement, "elevated no lower than the regulatory flood protection elevation." For manufactured home parks and subdivisions in flood-prone areas, subsection (3)(d) goes further and requires an evacuation plan for every resident of a new, substantially improved or substantially damaged park, and that plan "shall be filed with and approved by the floodplain administrator and the local emergency management coordinator" before the development proceeds.

Subsection (7) covers temporary non-residential structures placed in a special flood hazard area: before the floodplain administrator issues a permit, the applicant must submit a written removal plan naming the person responsible for taking the structure down, a contract or similar instrument with the entity that will physically remove it, and a location outside the flood hazard area to move it to. That plan must set "the time frame prior to the event at which a structure will be removed," which the code specifies as "a minimum of 72 hours before landfall of a hurricane or immediately upon flood warning notification." A temporary use permit under this subsection cannot run more than three months at a time, though it can be renewed up to one year total.

These hurricane-timed removal and evacuation duties sit inside the same flood damage prevention division that sets the elevation standard, so a manufactured home park operator or temporary-structure owner in the floodplain has to satisfy both the elevation rule and the storm-specific removal and evacuation planning.