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INSTRUCTIONS-TASK 1. POLICIES FOR DAMAGED BUILDINGS (Time to complete the task: 40 minutes) Purpose Apply or revise provisions in your floodplain management ordinance to determine the fate of flood-damaged buildings. Materials . Base map with information from Tasks A-H . Floodplain management ordinance . Handout 1. Policies for Damaged Buildings Steps 1. On the base map, outline areas where you would consider a temporary moratorium on repairs and rebuilding pending damage assessment of individual structures and decisions about the repair or replacement of flood control structures (black). 2. In Column 1 of Handout 1. Policies for Damaged Buildings, enter brief summaries of your current policies as contained in the floodplain management ordinance and any other relevant plans or ordinances as they pertain to decisions about flood-damaged structures in the flood way, the 100-year floodplain, and outside the floodplain. Also note existing policies pertaining to the repair or demolition of flood-damaged historic buildings regardless of location. 3. Next, review your current policies and identify any changes you would make to guide repairs, demolitions and rebuilding after this flood. Record your changes in Column 2 of Handout 1. 4. On the base map, identify damaged buildings to be removed with a black "X". These should include most buildings in the flood way and at least 1/3 of the buildings in the 100-year floodplain with more than 50% damage. 5. Are there changes in your existing policies and regulations that could be made now to improve decisions about damaged buildings after the real flood? On Handout 4. Recommended Actions, list actions that might be taken now to make this task easier after a flood. Products . Base map showing moratorium areas and buildings to be removed . Handout 1. Policies for Damaged Buildings . Entries on Handout 4. Recommended Actions Instructions-Task I