Save Our Soundside Issues Public Comment on FEMA Notice

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Save our Soundside Inc. has issued a public comment on the Federal Emergency Management Agency notice entitled "Request for Information on the National Flood Insurance Program's Floodplain Management Standards for Land Management and Use, and an Assessment of the Program's Impact on Threatened and Endangered Species and Their Habitats". The comment was posted on Nov. 16, 2021:

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In our area of NW Florida, and especially the environmentally sensitive peninsula that I live on has been subjected to horrific clear cutting with fill and build development.

As a consequence many homeowners who do not live on the coast are flooding in their subdivisions.

Santa Rosa County has over 390 storm water ponds engineered using 1960s rainfall data and ponds fail routinely.

Many people who do not expect to flood do, and others who have flooded in the past experience trauma and fear of repeat flooding.

The building that has taken place under the guise of affordable housing puts homeowners in a situation that is anything BUT affordable!

The price of flood insurance, rebuilding, flood hardening, insurance deductibles and being trapped in a flood prone home is devastating. Please revise these regulations!

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The notice can be viewed at https://www.regulations.gov/document/FEMA-2021-0024-0001

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