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We encourage you to publicize this event to reach homeowners, insurance agents, developers, representatives of lending institutions, or anyone who may be impacted by the proposed new FIRM. A sample Open House advertisement is enclosed for your use. Indian River County Local Officials Meeting Indian River County Flood Risk Open House Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Date: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 Time: 10:00 AM —12:00 PM EST Time: 4:00 PM — 7:00 PM EST Place: Indian River County Administration Place: Sebastian River High School Complex Cafeteria Community Development Conference 9001 Shark Boulevard Room Sebastian, FL 32958 1801 27th Street, Building A, 1 st Floor Vero Beach, FL 32960 The Preliminary FIS will be subject to a 90 -day review and appeal period, which will begin approximately 1 month after the CCO Meeting and Open House are held. If any appeals or other comments are received during that time, FEMA will review and resolve them before initiating the subsequent 6 -month adoption/compliance period. Therefore, it will take at least 9 months, from the beginning of the 90 -day appeal period to the end of the adoption/compliance period, before the Preliminary FIRM and FIS report become effective for lending and insurance purposes. The appeal and comment process will be discussed during the CCO Meeting with community officials. It is important that your floodplain administrator and representatives of the building/permitting department, planning and engineering offices attend the CCO Meeting. You may also wish to consider inviting other elected officials to that meeting so that they may be apprised of the forthcoming changes to the FIRM and FIS report. The Preliminary FIS is considered an update to the current effective FIS. This revised study, when it becomes effective, may result in increases and/or decreases to the regulatory flood elevations and/or the widths of the floodplains, depending on the identified flooding conditions. The Preliminary FIS will be the basis for your community's continued application and enforcement of all local floodplain management regulations required in conjunction with the participation criteria of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). Revisions to your community's existing floodplain management ordinance may be necessary to incorporate changes. In addition, before the new FIRM and FIS report become effective, your community's ordinance will need to be updated to reference the new effective date. Your local ordinance requires that any study data be used as "best available data." The study should be considered "best available data" in the following instances: 1. When development is proposed within any newly identified Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA) on the Preliminary FIRM, but shown outside of a currently effective SFHA on the current effective FIRM. 2. Where a Base Flood Elevation (BFE) is shown on the Preliminary FIRM, in areas presently shown as an unnumbered A zone with no elevations on the current effective FIRM. 3. Where BFEs on the Preliminary FIRM exceed those identified on the currently effective FIRM, the elevation should be used for regulatory purposes.