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Response <br />The City plans to design its housing program(s) in a way that creates long term resiliency against flooding. Comment appreciated and duly noted. No change to Action Plan necessary at <br /> this time. <br /> WORSE by building <br />Comment <br />Did you experience flood damage? <br />First my vote is for raising the homes to <br />Yes <br />absorb floodwaters. This would be smarter than assuming that human engineering re-routes of an ancient river system are going to be successful. There are too many examples of re-engineered <br /> rivers that have failed in our country's past, lessons that we should certainly heed from Louisiana and Florida. Note that the re-location/buyouts of homes in flood plains need to be <br /> done in a way that gives those homeowners some chance of buying a home in a non-flood-vulnerable spot. Underpinning the recovery efforts should be good efforts, like the ones the city <br /> has already undertaken, to NOT BUILD ANY MORE in places that will flood, and NOT MAKING FLOODINGupstream of San Marcos in spots that will cause increased flooding downstream. We must <br /> work to avoid flood amnesia, which has certainly happened over and over in the past, and led to our city allowing thousands of apartments, homes and businesses to be built in the 100 <br /> year flood plain. Even if a building is slightly elevated on a pile of dirt to rise out of the 100 year flood plain (which we realize is allowed byFEMA) the resident's cars are destroyed <br /> in the parking lots or driveways. Damage occurs to such buildings as well since we seem to have floods that too often exceed the 100 year or 1% risk lately. The financial and emotionally <br /> devastating effect of allowing building in the 100 year flood plain is too harmful to our community in the long run.Form Question:Answer:Comment:FEMA/SM City code height. Reason being, <br /> the neighborhood was established before all the surrounding construction. Current residential area impact should ALWAYSbe the first priority before any surrounding construction is even <br /> considered, much <br />Element <br />Elevation <br />Source <br />Date <br /># <br />169/2/16Online FormHousing - <br /> <br />