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Mayor’s resilience office and DPP brief committee on FEMA flood‑map updates and insurance implications
Summary
City officials outlined FEMA's updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), outreach and the 90‑day appeal window; they urged homeowners in newly mapped areas to shop for flood insurance because new insurance requirements may apply to federally backed mortgages when maps become effective.
Officials from the Mayor’s Office of Climate Change, Sustainability and Resiliency and the Department of Planning and Permitting briefed the committee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), the outreach program, and the appeals and next steps.
Ben Sullivan, executive director and chief resilience officer, explained that the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) requires communities to adopt FIRMs to make federal flood insurance available. He said FEMA’s preliminary maps studied hundreds of stream miles that were previously unassessed and that the update…
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