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Planning Staff Reports New FEMA Flood Maps, Short‑term‑rental Tracking Plan and Downtown Initiatives
Summary
Community Planning Director Kellen Spillman told the Planning Commission on June 10 that draft FEMA flood maps will remove about 2,600 structures from mapped flood zones and add about 500, a net of roughly 2,100 structures coming out, and that staff will seek assembly approval to buy software to track short‑term rentals.
Community Planning Director Kellen Spillman briefed the Planning Commission on flood‑map outreach, short‑term‑rental tracking, and downtown initiatives on June 10.
Spillman said the borough sent about 8,000 postcards and hosted three FEMA‑staffed open houses (North Pole Library, Salcha Senior Center, and Noel Wien Library) with roughly 150 total attendees to present draft flood insurance rate maps. "We sent out about 8,000 of these postcards," Spillman told commissioners, and he summarized the draft map impacts: "we have about 2,600 structures, mostly houses coming…
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