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AI# 10815
Regular City Council Meeting
4.4.
06/28/2022:
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Agenda Item
Ordinance 1st Reading - Engineering:
Consider an ordinance amending Chapter 30 “Lakes, Waterways and Floodplain” of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Lubbock, in order to extend freeboard requirements to residential machinery and equipment.
Item Summary
The Community Rating System (CRS) is a voluntary program within the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The CRS provides flood insurance discounts to communities that implement programs and measures that exceed minimum floodplain management requirements of the NFIP. The City of Lubbock has been a participant in the NFIP since 1982, and joined the CRS in 1992. The CRS determines discounts based on credits earned and class prerequisite achievements for participant activities and programs.
In January 2021, the CRS implemented a new CRS Class 8 prerequisite for freeboard for all participating and new CRS communities. The prerequisite requires the community to adopt and enforce at least a 1-foot freeboard requirement (including machinery and equipment) for all residential buildings constructed, substantially improved, and/or reconstructed due to substantial damage throughout the Special Flood Hazard Area.
These amendments extend the City's flood protection levels for residential and manufactured homes to include machinery and equipment and ensure that the City has achieved compliance with the CRS prerequisite to be at least a Class 8 community. The City's existing flood protection levels meet the 1-foot freeboard requirement for the lowest floor (excluding machinery and equipment) and exceeds it in areas identified within the Master Drainage Plan as areas of greater risk and uncertainty.
Additional amendments included the following:
Updates the most recent publication date of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps and Flood Insurance Study from January 2, 2013, to February 3, 2017.
Amends application area and special flood hazard areas to align with language in the Drainage Criteria Manual and Master Drainage Plan study areas. Ensures that flood protection levels identified by City studies, but not yet studied by the NFIP, are required to meet the same level of protection.
Fiscal Impact
None
Staff/Board Recommending
Jesica McEachern, Assistant City Manager
Attachments
Ordinance
Redline Ordinance
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