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designated as floodway in the flood insurance study, including without limitation the surface and shoreline of Lake Minnetonka below elevation 929.4 MSL, the surface and shoreline of other lakes, ponds and wetlands below the ordinary high water elevation, and the designated floodway of all streams and flowage areas. Flood fringe district (FFD). The flood fringe district shall include those areas designated as floodway fringe in the flood insurance study, including without limitation the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka between elevations 929.4 MSL and 931.5 MSL, the area between the floodway and the edge of the 100-year flood on all other lakes, ponds and streams, all designated sheet flow areas, all intermittent streams, and ponding areas and all lands containing soil types classified as wetlands soils, whether or not there is water standing on those soils at any given time. (3) General floodplain district (GFP). The general floodplain district shall include those areas studied by approximate methods and designated as unnumbered A zones by the flood insurance rate map. GFP areas may include both floodway and flood fringe areas. Development of lands containing designated GFP areas shall be contingent upon submittal by the developer of topographic data (at contour intervals of no greater than two feet) and/or otlier engineering analysis sufficient for the city to detennine the actual extent of the floodway and/or the flood fringe. Upon such detennination, the restrictions of the FW and FFD districts shall apply. (Code 1984, § 10.55(4)) Cross References: Dcriniiions generally, § 1-2. Sec. 78-1109. Ofllcial flood protection maps. (a) The boundaries of the floodplain and wetlands conservation areas shall be and arc designated as shown on one or more of the following official maps: Those areas designated and shown as stream, lake, marsh, wooded marsh, submerged marsh, inundation area, intermittent lake or intermittent streams by the United States Department of the Interior, through the Geological Survey on maps and supporting data designated as Mound Quadrangle, Minnesota [NW/4 Lake Minnetonka (1958)] and Excelsior Quadrangle, Minnesota [NW/4 Lake Minnetonka (1958)]. (2)Those areas designated and shown as wetlands soil types on the wetlands inventory and classification aerial plat map overlays prepared by the Hennepin Soil and Water Conservation District (June, 1975). Those areas designated and shown as general floodplain, floodway or flood fringe by the Federal Insurance Administration on the Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps, Orono, Minnesota, and Flood Insurance Rate Maps, Orono, Minnesota, dated October 17, 1978. Specifically