HomeMy WebLinkAboutFlood Law-1983 for 23 lots on sailflah. '
Winter Springs Fanllmer paid because of the ordi-
nance he spent about $8,000 to buy
grants variance enough fill dirt to raise his property to
flood the elevation required by the law.
to food law With the variance, Faulkner will re-
move enough earth to lower the prop-
erty to the flood level.
By John walk•- (34944. Ad Faulkner and Hartman, however;
claim that the federal flood maps for
OF Tae SEtrnn:i STAFF the area are in error and that the ele-
vation required for the Faulkner home
WINTER SPRINGS — The city and others on Sailfish is too high.. .-
commission this week told a Winter The map shows a flood elevation o
Springs man he may go ahead and 34 feet above sea level for the area
build his home at flood level. along Sailfish between Hayes and
The variance approved for Milton L. Shore roads. But as the small creek
Faulkner and the home he is building that meanders through the flood zone
on Sailfish Road is the first to be passes under Shore Road the elevation
granted under the city's year-old flood suddenly drops from 34 feet to 29 feet.
zone ordinance. The road itself was built at an eleva-
The ordinance requires homes to be Lion of 31 feet.
built 18 inches above the flood level. The city engineer said he would
It enables property owners to qualify contact federal flood officials to ask
for federal flood insurance and helps why the flood elevation would drop so
to alert property owners, mortgage quickly in a short distance and if the
' bankers and builders to potential. -map is incorrect.
flood areas. The issue arose last Tuesday after
Though the commission granted the commission agreed to consider h
Faulkner a variance, the city commis- variance for Faulkner but balked
sion stood by its refusal to grant Man- when Hartman suggested giving van-
' ket approval to about 20 other proper- antes to two-dozen other property
ty owners as requested a week ago by owners.
City Commissioner Jim Hartman. City Manager Richard Rozansky at
Hartman, his grandparents and his the time said he thought that the will-
brother live on Sailfish Road. His fa- ante also would require a public
titer also owns property on nearby hearing.
Stoner Road. But City Attorney Frank Eruppen-
Faulkner and Hartman's grandpas bather now says the city it had no
ems were the only property owners on established procedure for seeking a
Sailfishattire meeting last week*ben variance to the flood:-grammes. The
Hartman tried to pursued. the'Wm- attorney said inesday, however, he
mission to change the flood elevation was in the prgmwidpreparing one
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