Gloucester supervisors voted unanimously (with York District supervisor Phillip Bazzani absent) to adopt the county’s updated Coastal Floodplain Management Plan at its meeting Tuesday in the colonial courthouse.
The vote followed a work session discussion on the plan, which was first adopted on 2009 and readopted in 2014 and 2019. The 5-year updated plan that was approved on Tuesday incorporates recommendations from the board’s adopted annual updates.
The Federal Emergency Management Plan requires that localities update their floodplain management plans every five years to retain standing in FEMA’s Community Rating System.
Updates in the Coastal Floodplain Management Plan included the base elevation being raised to base BFE +3 and was incorporated in recent flood plan maps, the new flood maps were also included from 2021, and the CRS rating went from a six to a five, which gives homeowners a 25 percent discount for nearly all flood insurance policy holders in the county which homeowner...