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Committee continues floodplain management ordinance; staff to refine historic definitions and work with city attorney
Summary
After presentations from city resilience staff, FEMA consultant AECOM and SFPUC, the committee continued an ordinance to align San Francisco’s floodplain management code with FEMA/NFIP maps and asked staff to work with the city attorney on historic-structure language; the item was continued to the call of the chair (3-0).
The Land Use and Transportation Committee on Monday considered an ordinance to update San Francisco’s floodplain management requirements to conform with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s flood insurance maps and the National Flood Insurance Program.
Brian Strong, the city’s Chief Resilience Officer, said the city must adopt FEMA’s Flood Insurance Rate Maps to retain access to federal flood-insurance rate reductions and related benefits; he told the committee the updated maps could take effect as early as February 2021. “We must adopt it,” Strong said, noting FEMA’s maps and the community’s floodplain management regulations are linked to insurance and federal program participation.
Chris Barclay, a consultant with AECOM who has advised the city…
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