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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30 Development Review Process: Your goal in this part
of the Report is to provide the reader with a summary
description of how the community's development review
process works. Your sources are the description
provided by the local official during the visit and your
own observations during the meeting, ordinance and
permit file review, The checklist at Part 7 B(1-6)
provides an outline for your description, and your notes
from page 12 of the CRF provide the substance. Be sure
to address each of the four types of development covered
in Part 7B (buildings,'development other than buildings,
subdivisions and capital improvements), as well as
variances, elevation certifications and floodway
encroachment. Attach any forms, checklists or other
documents used in the local development review process
if they will assist the reader in understanding how it
works.

4. Ordinance Review: Your goal in this part of the
report is to describe any problems with the community's
ordinances. Use your ordinance review sheet and notes
from the checklist at Part 7C, Also list any
deficiencies under the Summary of Issues (Part IX of the
Report).

S. Map Availability and Accuracy: Your goal in this
part of the Report is to describe local officials' use
of the maps and their perceptions of map accuracyo You
should also add your own findings from the field tour
and other observations during the CAPE about map
accuracyo Your sources for this information are your
notes from the floodplain tour and local official's
meeting (pps. 4, 6, 7, 12 and l3 of the CRF)o

(a) Map Availability Checklist - Describe your
findings from items 1-3 of the checklist at
Part 7 D of the CRF. Did local officials have our
maps? Were they readily accessible? Had our data
been transferred or overlayed onto larger scale
maps, or local zoning and land use maps? Were the
maps available to the pUblic? Were other maps or
studies being used? HOW did they compare with our
study? Should an XDS or map revision be
investigated? How familiar with the maps and study
were local officials? Did they appear competent in
using them (making boundary and elevation
determinations, reading profiles, etco)?

(b) Map Accuracy Checklist - Describe your
findings from items 4-8 of the checklist at
Part 7 D of the CRF. Were local officials
satisfied that the maps and study are adequate,
i.eo, that mapped areas accurately depict flooding

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