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HEARING - Consider recommendations by the floodplain administrator that Board of Directors supplement the areas of special flood hazards identified in County Code Chapter 15A with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Interim Advisory Flood Maps for Santa Barbara County, First District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 30 MIN.)
Acting jointly as the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Directors, Flood Control and Water Conservation District:
a) Consider and approve the recommendation of the floodplain administrator that the Board of Supervisors and Board of Directors supplement the Flood Insurance Study dated September 1978 and the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM), dated March 15, 1979, and all subsequent amendments and/or revisions with the FEMA Recovery Map (provided to the County on June 11, 2018 to be used by the County in conjunction with the FIRM map to determine: 1) “the areas of special flood hazard” to which County Code Chapter 15A applies; and 2) within the special flood hazard area, to determine the elevation height at which development and rebuilding is required to be built (if applicable);
b) Find that the proposed action is an administrative activity of the County, which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and is therefore not a “project” as defined for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5) as discussed in the Notice of Exemption; and
c) Waive the 6-day posting requirement for the revised Notice of Exemption for good cause pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section V.D.2.
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY