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I I I I I, I I I I I I I I I I I I I I house Gulch between Windermere Street and Datura Street should be carefully monitored by the City in terms of controlling changes to the property and ultimately leading to acquisition of the lots designated. Property acquisition is consistent with open space planning for recreational and open space uses. Federal grants are made to assist communities in acquiring such open spaces when linked with a program of comprehensive planning. Also, urban renewal funds may also be avail- able for flood-blighted areas, which become a drain on the health and welfare of the community. 6. City Aid The City should also consider new plans which might assist property owners along both Slaughterhouse Gulch and the south tributary. If structural improvements were to be employed through the Windermere Street - Powers Park reach, substantial public funds would be expended to improve and reduce the flooding associated with the adjoining properties. The City or public would recognize some benefit of the expenditure of these funds but not in the same proportion as that of the private property owner. In promoting individual efforts to minimize flood hazards on private property, the City should consider plans which would assist homeowners with funding to implement various floodproofing or building upgrading measures. Such measures would permit those who have purchased property without knowledge of the hazards of the area or without knowledge of proposed limita- tions to property improvement, to make the proper adjustments to their property to accommodate the flood problems inherent with the property. There is no reasonable basis for requiring present property owners to suffer as a result of past mistakes or inade- quate information. VIII-13