HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 534RESOLUTION # 534
Is A RESOLUTION FOR APPLICATION FOR FLOOD INSURANCE
WHEREAS, certain areas of the community are subject to
periodic flooding from the streams causing serious damages to
properties within these areas; and
WHEREAS, relief is available in the form of flood insurance
as authorized by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as amended;
and
WHEREAS, it is the intent of this Council to comply with
land use and management criteria regulations as required in said
act; and
WHEREAS, it is also the intent of this Council to recognize
and duly evaluate flood hazards in all official actions relating to
land use in the flood plain areas having special flood hazards; and
WHEREAS, the Code Citations of State enabling legislation
and of any resulting local ordinance that authorizes this community
to adopt land use and control measures are: Minn. Statutes Sections
394.01 et seq and 505.09 to 505.13 (counties); Minn. Statutes 462.351 -
462.363 (cities, villages, boroughs); Minn. Statutes, C. 104 (Flood
Plain Management Act); etc.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that this Council hereby
assures the Federal Insurance Administration that it takes the
following legislative action:
(1) Appoints (official, office or agency) with the
responsibility, authority and means to:
(a) Delineate or assist the Federal Insurance
Administrator, at his request, in delineating the limits of the areas
having special flood hazards on available local maps of sufficient
scale to identify the location of building sites.
(b) Provide such information as the Administrator may
request concerning present uses and occupancy of the flood plain area.
(c) Maintain for public inspection and furnishing
upon request, with respect to each area having special flood hazards,
information on elevations (in relation to mean sea level) of the lowest
floors of all new or substantially improved structures.
(d) Cooperate with Fbderal, State, and local agencies
and private firms which undertake to study, survey, map, and identify
flood plain areas, and cooperate with neighboring communities with
respect to management of adjoining flood plain areas in order to prevent
• aggrivation of existing hazards.
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(e) Submit on the anniversary date of the community's
initial eligibility, an annual report to the Administrator on the
progress made during the past year within the Community in the
development and implementation of flood plain management measures.
(2) Take such other official action as may be reasonably
necessary to carry out the objectives of the program.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Council hereby appoints
the City Administrator with the overall responsibility, authority
and means to implement all commitments made herein.
Adopted by the City Council of the City of Orono, Minnesota, at a
regular meeting held March 11, 1974.
Robert L. Searles, Mayor
Attest:
James W. Cosby, Clerk -Administrator