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Polk County officials say new FEMA flood maps remain pending, leaving insurance and financing uncertainty
Summary
County staff said FEMA's 2014 flood maps were not adoptable and new maps are on a queue awaiting federal funding; commissioners heard that updated mapping could change floodplain boundaries and affect mortgage insurance obligations for many Polk County properties.
Commissioners discussed the county's efforts to update FEMA flood maps after staff described the 2014 maps as unreliable and unusable for local adoption. County staff reported completing the FEMA 'discovery' step last December but said the project awaits federal funding to proceed with lidar and new map development.
"We did a discovery which is…
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