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Consider and take action on an ordinance amending Chapter 50 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of League City entitled Floods by amending Sec. 50-61 to adopt the final flood hazard determination for the City of League City, Galveston County, Texas by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as required by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), by amending Sec. 50-66 to adjust variance procedures for non-inhabitable structures, and by amending Sec. 50-81 to reduce substantially improved or damaged time period to a five-year period (Director of Engineering)
Background:
Approval of this ordinance will amend three (3) areas of the City’s existing Flood Ordinance (Chapter 50: Floods in the City’s Code of Ordinances).
The first amendment the approval of this resolution will adopt the final flood hazard determinations for the City of League City, Galveston County, Texas in compliance with Title 44, Chapter I, Part 67, Section 67.11, Code of Federal Regulations. The flood hazard determinations may include addition of and/or modifications to Base Flood Elevations (BREs), base flood depths, Special Flood Hazard Areas (SFHAS), zone designations, and regulatory floodways. In July 2012, the President signed H.R. 4348 Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act 2012 also known as BW12. In support of BW12, FEMA and NOAA have utilized the latest technology to provide more accurate Flood Insurance Studies for the United States.
The City received by CERTIFIED MAIL a February 15, 2019 notification, Attachment A, that “The FIRM for your community will become effective on August 15, 2019” and “as a condition of continued eligibility in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), to adopt or show evidence of adoption of floodplain management regulations that meet the standards of Paragraph 6.3(d and e) of the NFIP regulations (44 CFR 59, etc.) by the effective date of the FIRM.”
Section 50-61 will be amended to read as follows:
“The areas of spe...
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