Mapping error that cost some thousands could be fixed
Since 1990, residents of the waterfront communities Finisterre,
Dunn has filed a bill, H.R. 2947, the "Strengthening Coastal Communities Act," which would take the communities out of the protection area, allowing homeowners to get the much more reasonably priced federal flood insurance.
After a hearing last week in
"I think there is an excellent chance," Dunn said. "We had a very favorable hearing at the Natural Resources Committee. We had people on all sides of the issue, including the
Dunn said the bill is "a correction to a mistake that was made in the Fish and Wildlife mapping."
"I think we've finally got this thing surrounded and nailed down," he said. "What (the bill) does is it removes 198 homes from the coastal barrier system, which means they can receive a number of federal benefits, including access to federal flood insurance, disaster recovery and federally backed mortgages. If these houses were uninsurable they'd have no resale value at all, so these 198 homeowners would have been literally left with homes that were worth nothing."
For example,
He was pleased to hear about Dunn's legislation on the verge of passing.
"Of course I'd be happy if it happened," Albano said.
In 1990, when the CBRA maps were drawn for
"That imprecise method included private property in the OPA map," Griffitts said.
Griffitts told the committee the OPA map should have been limited to undeveloped conservation areas such as national wildlife refuges, national parks and seashores, state parks, military bases and conservation lands owned by private organizations.
Griffitts said Monday that developed communities should not have been included in the map, adding flooding has not been a problem in these communities either.
Dunn said the final vote on the bill, which has a companion in the
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