FLOOD04694

• County: Statewide
• Basin: Statewide
• Title: The Region VIII Cape Study - A Guide for Staff Performing Community Assistance and Performance Evaluation Visits
• Date: 9/1/1984
• Prepared For: Region VIII
• Prepared By: FEMA
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Historic FEMA Regulatory Floodplain Information

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phone number and a contact, if available, as well as the
number of policies handled, on Page 10 of the CRF. Also, ask
whether they have had any problems, particularly any relating
to local official's floodplain management responsibilities,
e,g., failure to maintain lowest floor elevations.

M. Summarize Issues: Summarize the issues identified during
the preparation phase that will need to be pursued during the
CAPE visit. Focus on specific areas of concern in order to
take full advantage of the limited time available on-site.
Complete your lists of sites to be visited and issues to be
addressed during the CAPE.

N. Send Meeting Confirmation Letters: For all meetings
arranged with local officials, lenders and insurance agents,
send a confirmation letter based on the samples included in
Attachment E.

O. Compile Materials and Equipment: See Attachment F for a
list of necessary, suggested and optional materials and
equipment for use during the community visit. Complete your
preparations as soon as possible before the visit,

Phase II: Community visit

A. Introduction: The community visit is the heart of the
CAPE. On-site analysis and face-to-face meetings provide the
best gauge of the effectiveness of a community's floodplain
management program. The visit has six parts: the floodplain
tour, meetings with lenders, insurance agents and local
officials, an examination of development permit files and a
summary of issues identified during the visit.

B. The Floodplain Tour: The reviewer has three tasks
during the tour: first, to become generally familiar with
the community; second, to gather site-specific information on
new development, and third, to gather site-specific
information on the accuracy and completeness of the
community's currently effective floodplain maps.

I. General Issues: In addition to site-specific
information, the floodplain tour is intended to provide
the reviewer with general familiarity with the
floodplain and adjacent areas, This includes overall
land use patterns, density and type of floodplain
occupancy, availability of undeveloped land outside the
floodplain, etc. It also provides the reviewer the
opportunity to validate some of the community profile
statistics such as floodplain population and structure
counts (see Part 2 of the CRFl.

2. New Development: For all of the new development
sites identified during your preparations and noted on