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Resolution to Manage Floodplain Development for the National Flood Insurance Program
Memorandum
The City of Ann Arbor currently participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP makes flood insurance available within participating communities. Federal law requires flood insurance for any structure within the 1% annual chance floodplain (formerly known as the 100-year floodplain) that has a federally backed mortgage.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) requires communities that participate in the NFIP to adopt and administrate minimum floodplain development regulations. The wording of this resolution is prescribed by FEMA and MDEQ and includes their minimum floodplain development regulations. FEMA has issued a new Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRM) for Washtenaw County that will go into effect on April 3, 2012. An amendment to the Construction Code, Chapter 100, is proposed for City Council consideration to adopt the new FIS and FIRM. Both the resolution and ordinance revision are mandatory, prior to April 3, 2012, for the City’s continued participation in the NFIP.
Staff
Prepared By: Jerry Hancock, Stormwater and Floodplain Programs Coordinator
Reviewed By: Craig Hupy, P.E., Interim Public Services Administrator
Approved By: Steven D. Powers, City Administrator
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Whereas, the City of Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County, Michigan currently participates in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (“FEMA”s) National Flood Insurance Program (“NFIP”) by complying with the program’s applicable statutory and regulatory requirements for the purposes of significantly reducing flood hazards to persons, reducing property damage, and reducing public expenditures, and providing for the availability of flood insurance and federal funds or loans within its community;
Whereas, the NFIP requires that floodplain management regulations must be present and enforced in participating communities, and util...
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