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Commission tables proposed flood‑damage ordinance amendment after island and critical‑facility concerns
Summary
County staff proposed aligning the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance with FEMA guidance and reinstating a prohibition on locating critical facilities in special flood hazard areas; commissioners representing island communities raised access and service concerns and the board voted to table the amendment for further review.
County engineering staff asked the Board to approve a substantial reformatting and targeted substantive changes to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance (FDPO), including added definitions and reinstating language that would prevent locating critical facilities — hospitals, nursing homes, emergency operations centers, utility systems and similar structures — inside mapped special flood‑hazard areas (FEMA AE, AO and coastal A zones). The county engineer said the revision aimed to remove ambiguity in enforcement and align the…
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