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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Jason E. Brown <br />County Administrator <br />THROUGH: Stan Boling, AICP <br />Community Development Director <br />FROM: Roland M. DeBlois, AICP <br />Chief of Environmental Planning and Code Enforcement <br />DATE: February 23, 2018 <br />SUBJECT: Notice of Upcoming FEMA Open House for Public Review of Proposed Revisions to Certain <br />Flood Insurance Rate Maps in Indian River County <br />It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners formally consider the following information at the Board's <br />regular meeting of March 6, 2018. <br />BACKGROUND <br />In Indian River County and elsewhere, Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMS) identify the location of Special Flood <br />Hazard Areas (SFHAs) which are based on 100 -year floodplains. Those flood maps are used regularly by the <br />public for flood insurance purposes and by county staff in regulating development in SFHAs. <br />In 2012, after a number of public workshops and meetings, Indian River County's FIRMS were updated as part of <br />a nationwide "map modernization project" undertaken by FEMA. The map modernization process entailed <br />assessment of current available flood studies and use of up-to-date high resolution aerials to revise the County's <br />flood maps to be more accurate and useable in depicting flood zones. <br />Over the past several years, FEMA has conducted and is now completing two flood risk study projects that affect <br />flood hazard areas identified in Indian River County. Those projects are titled as follows: <br />• Coastal Flood Risk Study for the East Coast Central Florida Study Area; and <br />• Levee Analysis and Mapping Procedure (LAMP) analysis and mapping for central Indian River County. <br />As a result of the two projects, a number of FIRMS encompassing central and coastal Indian River County are <br />being revised to reflect findings of the projects (see map, Attachment 2). The proposed revisions remove some <br />properties and add other properties to designated flood hazard areas, with more properties being removed than <br />added (example: Vero Lake Estates). <br />Open House for Review of New Flood Hazard Maps <br />FEMA, in coordination with County staff and School District staff, has scheduled and is hosting an Open House <br />on March 21, 2018 at Sebastian River High School for the public to attend and learn about the proposed flood <br />hazard map revisions. A notice of the Open House has been placed on Indian River County's website home page <br />(ircgov.com), and County GIS staff are developing a map application to post on the website for the public to <br />access and review the proposed revisions on-line. <br />3 <br />C:\Users\legistar\AppData\Local\Temp\BCL Technologies\easyPDF 8\@BCL@B80D07AO\@BCL@B80D07AO.rtf <br />