PFP RULES CHANGES:

1
P-FP RULES CHANGES
Regulating Development in the Flood
Prone Area Protection Subdistrict
2
BACKGROUNDLURCs Involvement with NFIP

• Mid-1970s LURC agreement with FEMA made
  flood insurance available
• NFIP regulations participants must adopt and
  enforce flood plain management regulations based
  on data provided

3
Coastal Island Rezonings

• Andrews and Muscongus Bay islands
• More detailed FEMA maps expanded P-FP zone
• Encompassed residential development
• P-FP Subdistrict prohibits most structural
  development
• COMMISSION DIRECTIVE
• Allow some development in P-FP zone

4
Proposed P-FP Rule Changes

• OBJECTIVE
• Allow small scale development in P-FP
• ISSUES
• Incorporating FEMA rules
• Adopting FEMA maps by reference
• Encompassing additional land areas in some
  places, existing development

5
P-FP RULE CHANGES Incorporating FEMA rules
into Chapter 10

• Definitions
• Variance provisions
• Map adoption by reference
• Limited development by special exception
• Additions to 10.17 procedural requirements
  and development standards

6
Post Draft to Public Hearing with Revisions

• Packet page 000020 (page 5) Delete last
  sentence in last paragraph on page, beginning In
  any case where
• Packet page 000023 (page 10) Place comma after
  1st word on page structures ,

7
Cyr Plantation FEMA Map

• The infamous A zones
• 30 of 35 LURC towns, townships, plantations have
  only A zones

8
Andrews IslandFEMA Map

• Adopted in Jan. 2001
• First time elevations put on LURC Land Use
  Guidance Map
• Expanded P-FP encompassed existing residential
  development

9
Muscongus Bay Islands LURC Zones

• Adopted in Dec. 2001
• Again, new P-FP boundaries encompassed
  development on island
• Elevations incorporated into LURC zoning

10
FEMA Map LURC Zones
Andrews Island Muscongus Bay Islands