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Cutler Bay council adopts amendments to floodplain ordinance, raising substantial‑improvement threshold to 49% and shortening accumulation period to one year
Summary
Council adopted changes to Chapter 18 to align with state requirements and to adjust local thresholds: cumulative substantial improvement threshold changed from 44% to 49% of market value, and the lookback period for cumulative improvements was reduced from five years to one year.
On Oct. 16 the Cutler Bay council adopted a second‑reading ordinance amending Chapter 18 (Floodplain Management) of the town code to update definitions and flood‑resistant development standards. Vice Mayor Callaghan summarised two local, substantive changes in addition to wording required by the state: the cumulative substantial improvement threshold will change from 44% to…
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