HomeMy WebLinkAbout71-19 - Requesting that Flood Insurance be made available to CitizensRESOLUTION NO. 71-19
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA,
CALIFORNIA, REQUESTING THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO MAKE
AVAILABLE TO THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA FLOOD
INSURANCE UNDER THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE ACT, PUBLIC
LAW 90-448, AND THE MUDSLIDE AMENDMENT TO SAID ACT, PUBLIC
LAW 91-152. AND FINDING A NEED THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS
FOLLOWS:
THAT, WHEREAS, portions of the City of Costa Mesa are subject to
recurrent flooding and landslides, resulting in damage to property and
potential loss of life, and
WHEREAS, the National Flood Insurance Act, Public Law 90-448, and
the Mudslide Amendment, Public Law 91-152, are maintained to make avail-
able to the public insurance to serve and fill this public need, and
WHEREAS, Sections 1910.2 and 1910.3 of the National Flood Insurance
Program Regulations require expression of interest and assurances.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does
hereby find, determine, order, declare and resolve as follows:
The City of Costa Mesa:
1. Expresses hereby its desire and need for participation in and
receiving the benefits of the National Flood Insurance Program.
e 2. Recognizes and plans to evaluate flood hazards in all its official
iL actions relating to land use in flood plain areas having special hazards.
3. Hereby proposes to enact by December 31, 1971, and maintain and
enforce within areas having special flood hazards, adequate land use and
control measures with effective provisions consistent with the criteria
set forth in subpart B of Section 1910 of the National Flood Insurance
Program regulations.
4. If necessary, will seek state enabling legislation conferring
authority to enact land use and control measures designed to reduce exposure
of property to flood losses.
5. Will assist the National Flood Insurance Program administrator, at
his request, in delineating the limits of the flood plain having special
flood hazard on local maps of sufficient scale to identify the location of
building sites.
6. After flood insurance is made available, will furnish representatives
of appropriate federal or state agencies or of the National Flood Insurers
Association, information as requested concerning new or substantially improved
structures within the area of special flood hazard.
7. Will cooperate with federal, state and local agencies undertaking
to study, survey, map and identify flood prone areas, and will cooperate with
neighboring jurisdictions with respect to adjoining flood plains in order to
prevent aggravation of the flooding problem.
8. Will appoint or designate an agency or official with the responsibility,
authority and means to implement the commitment made in this resolution.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be forwarded to
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and to the U. S. Army
Engineers District, Los Angeles, urging acceleration of the flood plain
information report programs as required for compliance with the federal
regulations for administration of the National Flood Insurance Program.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that
certified copies of
this resolution be
forwarded to the representatives
of Orange County at
the nations Capital
in Washington, D.C.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5th
day of April, 1971.
Mar of
Che City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
City Clerk of the City of Costa Me
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio
Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa hereby certify that the
above and foregoing Resolution No. 71-19 was duly and regularly passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 5th day of April, 1971.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of
the City of Costa Mesa this 6th day of April, 1971.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk o the
City Council of the City of Cos tapesa
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