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I' ,.711f317MMI79 1=11 I DATE: April 14,2010 CASE: ZA2010-00I SUDIECT: Zoning Code Amendment Updating the Floodplain Management Ordinance & Adoptian afAmended Floodplain Maps Aerracaer: City of New Brighton RKQuF J; BACKGROUND The City of New Brighton is requesting consideration of an updated mW amended Floodplain Management Ordinm:ce (Chapter 10 of the Zoning Code), which includes enactment of revised floodplain maps. Those updates are in response w a mandate by the Federal Emergency Managemem Agency (FEMA) and are necessary to ensure New Brighton residents can continue to participate in the National Flood bemance Program. New Brighton historically has adopted the model endurance required by FEMA, aM has not included arty additional regulations. Because very few structures exist within the floodplain in New Brighton, use of the regulations has been extremely limited. FEMA has been working with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for several years on conducting a Flood Insurance Study and revised Flood Insurance Rate Maps for New B6gbam. Actually, all flood maps across the United Stste have been getting updated over the course of five -plus years with more Flood -prone mess having priority. The process for New Brighton begun in mid -2008. Since then, several international open houses have occurred as well as statutorily required comment periods. At this point, the maps are considered final and communities must enact revised floodplain ord"mauces referencing the revised maps prior to June 4, 2010. If rids deadline is not met, New Brighton will no longer be able to participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, meaning residents located within floodplain areas will not be able in obtain flood insurance. ATTACHMENTS A — Proposed lhdinmae B—DNR Approval Letter C —Exiting floodplain zones D — Proposed floodplain zones FINDINGS ZauingCodq Chapter t0 ORDINANCE ANALYSIS As noted in the Background section above, New Brighton's current Floodplain Managemeut Ordinance is esscntirEy the model Do mance provided by the DNR. This model ordinance enacts only the minimum standards necessary in order for New Brighton to participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. New Brighton has not erected any regulations that art more restrictive. Also, during the course of reviewing the model ordinance and the new FNMA mandated language, it was discovered Ilei New Brighton's ordinance did not include some updates that were required in 2004. Those edits are mainly the Zone A lakes information in Saxon 10-060.