Agenda Date: 07/21/2020
Subject:
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Ordinance 24-2020: An ordinance on second reading amending Title 10, Chapter 6, Section 4 (B) (1) of the Municipal Code in order to reference the most recent Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Map
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Prepared by:
Carolyn R Roan, Water Resource Manager
PURPOSE:
Does council wish to approve Ordinance 24-2020 to adopt the most recent Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Map?
PRESENTATIONS:
Staff Presenter(s): Carolyn R Roan, Water Resource Manager,
Public Works Department
Additional Presenter(s): None
SUMMARY:
The Mile High Flood District (MHFD) updated the floodplain study for Little's Creek in a Flood Hazard Area Delineation Study dated July 2012. The updated study was sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a Physical Map Revision (PMR) to update the Flood Insurance Study and Flood Insurance Rate Map(s) for Littles Creek and a number of other drainageways in the Denver Metropolitan Area in January 2016. After significant delays (unrelated to Little's Creek), the PMR was recently approved by FEMA and is to be effective on September 4, 2020. The City of Littleton has been a participating National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) community since 1978 when the first floodplain maps were created in the City. Participating communities in the NFIP are required to update their floodplain regulations to adopt new mapping and studies, prior to the effective date. Littleton was notified of this requirement by letter on March 4, 2020. The floodplain regulations update will include changing the date of the FEMA Flood Insurance Study referenced in Municipal Code 10-6-4(B)(1) to September 4, 2020.
PRIOR ACTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS:
City Council adopted the floodplain study for Little's Creek on May 21, 2013. There have been no other discussions.
Approved by council on first reading on July 7, 2020.
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