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Woodfin staff outline enforcement limits, FEMA recovery progress and grant strategies after Helene
Summary
Town manager and staff told the council about FEMA project submissions, potential grant sources, ongoing stormwater and roads work, and the statutory limits and practical challenges of municipal code enforcement, including junk‑vehicle, sanitation, noise and minimum‑housing cases.
Town staff offered a detailed briefing Oct. 21 on the town’s Hurricane Helene recovery work and on municipal code enforcement, stressing statutory limits and practical tradeoffs.
On recovery, the town manager said engineers had submitted revised damage inventories and detailed cost estimates to FEMA in hopes of classifying several projects as "large," providing more flexibility and improving eligibility. Debris invoices are nearly obligated, but technical file‑format issues with FEMA reviewers remain. Staff reported Riverside Park Phase 2 costs submitted for FEMA/passive‑rec grant…
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