HomeMy WebLinkAbout031541 ORD - 09/18/2018 Ordinance amending the Code of Ordinances to adopt the preliminary flood
insurance rate maps; and providing for penalty
WHEREAS, the City of Corpus Christi received Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps on
October 23, 2015.
WHEREAS, The City submitted on appeal along the Oso Creek area in 2016.
WHEREAS, the appeal findings are final, and the City was issued Revised Preliminary Flood
Insurance Maps on May 30, 2018.
WHEREAS, The City can adopt the Preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps for construction
purposes.
Now therefore, be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Corpus Christi, Texas:
SECTION 1. That Corpus Christi Code of Ordinances, Chapter 14 "Development Services",
Article V "Flood Hazard Prevention Code," Section 14-532 "Basis for establishing the areas of
special flood hazard" is amended by adding the following language that is underlined (added)
and deleting the language that is stricken (deleted) as delineated below:
The areas of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
in a scientific and engineering reports entitled, The Flood Insurance Study for Corpus Christi,
dated September 17, 1992, The Flood Insurance Study for Nueces County Unincorporated Areas,
dated May 4, 1992, and the Preliminary Flood Insurance Study for Corpus Christi, dated October
23, 2015,with accompanying flood insurance rate maps dated September 17, 1992 July 18, 1985
for the City of Corpus Christi, March 18, 1985 for Nueces County Unincorporated, and preliminary
flood insurance rate maps dated October 23, 2015 and flood boundary-floodway maps (FIRM and
FBFM) and any revisions thereto are hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of
this code. Base flood elevation construction requirements are determined by utilizing the most
stringent requirement in either the effective or the preliminary Flood Insurance Study or flood
insurance rate maps.
Section 2. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi as
required by City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
Section 3. A violation of this ordinance, or requirements implemented under this ordinance,
constitutes an offense punishable as provided in Section 14-207 and Section 1-6 of the Corpus
Christi Code of Ordinances.
Section 4. Severability. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this Ordinance shall be declared
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
declaration shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and
sections of this Ordinance, since the same would not have been acted by the City without the
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incorporation into this Ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence,
paragraph, or section.
Section 5. Effective date. This ordinance takes effect on upon publication.
That the foregoing ordi ance was read for� the first time and passed to its second
reading on this the \V day o er -v)dotP,20718, by the following vote:
Joe McComb Ben Molina
Rudy Garza Everett Roy
Paulette Guajardo 0 ,Q Lucy Rubio
Michael Hunter I Greg Smith
Debbie Lindsey-Opel '�,
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That tiw,f9regoing orptinane wa read for the second time and passed finally on this
the /611--)day of t iC/h- - 2018, by the following vote:
Joe McComb at i Ben Molina
Rudy Garza a A. Everett Roy --dtAL
Paulette Guajardo _C6.1., Lucy Rubio _Ay,
Michael Hunter of Greg Smith ___ILOL
Debbie Lindsey-Opel
PASSED AND APPROVED on this the I8 1—
day of J I a018.
ATTEST:
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