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CITY COUNCIL JOINT SPECIAL SESSION
THURSDAY, MAY 4, 2006
MUNICIPAL BUILDING
3800 UNIVERSITY BLVD.
5:30 P.M.
The City Council convened in Special Session with members of the Building and
Standards Commission and the Zoning and Planning Commission in the Municipal
Building Conference Room (3800 University Boulevard) on May 4, 2006 with the
following members present: Mayor Pro Tem Cohen presiding, Council Members Segal
and Yehle. The City Manager, City Secretary, Assistant City Manager/Public Works
Director, Building Official and Legal Counsel Jim Dougherty were also present. Council
Member Woods arrived at 6:15 p.m.
The notice for this meeting was posted in accordance with the Texas Government Code,
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Chapter 551, on the 28 day of April 2006 at 10:00 a.m.
Special Session
Floodplain Management and elevation.
Matters related to floodplain management, flood elevation and related issues.
Members of the Building and Standards Commission present at the meeting were: Chair
Bryant Slimp, Muddy McDaniel, Michael Talianchich, Dave Miller, Peter Benjamin and
Brian Hoogendam.
Members of the Zoning and Planning Commission present were: Steve Brown, Michael
Silver and Mac McManus.
Building Official Debbie Scarcella explained a draft of the proposed amendment to
Chapter 18 of the City?s Code of Ordinances relating to floodplain regulations. She
reported that FEMA and the State regulations require that all new construction and
substantial improvements to existing construction be built so that the finished floor
elevation of the structure meet or exceed the mapped base flood elevation. Several of the
surrounding communities have enacted ?freeboard? requirements (higher regulatory
standards) that require structures to meet or exceed the base flood elevation plus
increments in inches between one and two feet.
The City Council requested that the Building and Standards Commission and the Zoning
and Planning Commission work together to determine the results and possible
ramifications of enacting ?freeboard? requirements and what those requirements should
be.
City Council Special Session, May 4, 2006
Adjournment.
With no further business to come before the City Council at this time, the Council
meeting adjourned at 6:40 p.m.
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