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Consideration of and action on an ordinance amending the revisions to the Comprehensive Flood Damage Rules and Regulations.
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Summary: The City is required to adopt the most recent version of the National Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) and Flood Insurance Study before January 6, 2017 which is the date the new FIRM maps become effective. This is also the appropriate time to update our current floodplain regulation ordinance since it is 20 years old and outdated.
Our current ordinance covering the comprehensive flood damage rules and regulations (Ord. 2452) was adopted in 1996. In 1998, Ordinance 2599 was adopted to amend subsections of the original ordinance. In 2007 Ordinance 3149 amended additional sections of the current Ordinance.
Administering these regulations is cumbersome since we have to look over all three ordinances in arrive at the correct interpretation, which causes a great deal of confusion between both the City staff and developers.
Therefore, we are proposing to repeal all three ordinances in their entirety and replace them with a single ordinance to prevent any confusion. The result would be updating our outdated ordinance with newer definitions and more current regulations that FEMA requires us to have.
For your consideration, you will find the current ordinance with red lined revisions as well as the attached final version of the proposed ordinance.
* Newer FEMA definitions concerning floodplain management were added to the ordinance.
* Clause is added in Article 3, Section B to adopt the latest FIRM maps dated January 6, 2017 and any revisions thereafter.
* Article 3, Section C, gives more detail concerning the establishment of a "development permit"
* Article 4, Section B and C, more responsibilities were added for the floodplain manager, as per FEMA's current standards.
* Article 5, Section A, added the requirement that completed elevation certificates must be submitted and approved for any construction in a flood...
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