Staff Report -- Chap 8 update1
CITY OF ATLANTIC BEACH
CITY COMMISSION MEETING
STAFF REPORT
AGENDA ITEM: Ordinance No. 25-18-44 updating City flood maps and correcting
six (6) scrivener errors from the original adoption of the Flood
Plain Ordinance.
SUBMITTED BY: Dan Arlington, Building Official
TODAY’S DATE: June 1, 2018
MEETING DATE: June 25, 2018
SUMMARY: FEMA is updating the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) and Flood Insurance Rate Maps
(FIRM) for Duval County, including the City of Atlantic Beach. Florida Department of Emergency
Management (DEM) coordinates between FEMA and the individual jurisdictions in the State.
The changes included here are part of the Model Flood Plain Ordinance, produced by DEM and
adopted by Atlantic Beach.
In addition to the revised date for the FIS and FIRM, six scrivener errors were found during a
review, by DEM, of our Flood Plain Ordinance. Our Flood Plain Ordinance, LDC Chapter 8, was
adopted by Ordinance No. 25-13-43, on 4/08/13, based on the original State model flood plain
ordinance. The scrivener errors were made during that process and consist of incomplete
references from one section to another. Two versions of the corrected sections are attached
here, one with the comments from the DEM consultant and a cle an copy for adoption.
The first flood map for Atlantic Beach from FEMA (at that time, called a Flood Hazard Boundary
Map) was issued in 1974. Subsequent revisions occurred in 1977, 1983, 1989, 2013, and this
revision, 2018.
These revisions are strictly procedural changes to remain active in the National Flood Insurance
Program (NFIP) and Community Rating System (CRS). No substantive changes were made to
our Flood Plan Ordinance and I recommend approval.
CITY MANAGER: ________________________________________
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ATTACHMENTS:
Ordinance No. 25-18-44 with DEM comments.
Ordinance No. 25-18-44.