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City to adopt updated floodplain ordinance after FEMA map updates; no changes to local flood elevations
Summary
City staff said FEMA redrew maps statewide and that the city must adopt an updated floodplain ordinance to reference the new maps; staff reported no changes to local flood elevations or floodway, and the update is an administrative adoption to meet FEMA requirements.
City attorney John Cleveland and staff reported that FEMA is updating flood-insurance maps and that the city is required to adopt an updated floodplain ordinance that references the new maps. Staff said the county’s Flood Insurance Rate Map amendments did not change the city’s floodplain or floodway elevations; changes occurred in areas south of Sweetwater and in neighboring counties.
Cleveland said the city’s ordinance update is a FEMA-required administrative action to reference the current maps and to fill previously blank ordinance language (for example, fee amounts that had been left unspecified). He said the update does not alter flood elevations in Sweetwater and that mobile-home-park references and other text edits are part of the compliance update.
Action and next steps: staff will prepare the updated floodplain ordinance for formal consideration so the city can remain in compliance with FEMA’s map updates; no substantive regulatory changes to local flood elevations were reported in the workshop.
