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Peabody committee backs zoning updates to meet FEMA, NFIP requirements
Summary
The Industrial and Community Development Committee voted to recommend that City Council advance amendments to the Floodplain Overlay District and Wetlands Conservancy District to maintain eligibility in the National Flood Insurance Program and meet Massachusetts model ordinance requirements.
The Industrial and Community Development Committee in Peabody voted to recommend that the City Council move forward with proposed amendments to the city’s Floodplain Overlay District and Wetlands Conservancy District and referred the measure to the Planning Board for a public hearing. Committee members voted 5-0 to send a positive recommendation and asked staff to advertise the ordinance for council-level public hearing.
Kirk Bellavance, director of planning and community development, told the committee the changes are required so Peabody remains eligible for the National Flood Insurance Program, administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "Part of being in this program, FEMA requires us to update our ordinance language," Bellavance said, describing work with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and a state model ordinance the agency required the city to adopt in specific language.
The amendments revise Section 8 of the city zoning ordinance. Bellavance said…
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