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MEMO <br /> DATE : May 19, 1999 <br /> TO : Honorable Mayor and Council <br /> FROM : Jim March <br /> RE : Floodway Reduction Update <br /> Included in your packet is a letter from H.R. Green received on May 12th that details the work <br /> that would need to occur to continue the process of revising the floodway width along Clearwater <br /> Creek west of 20th Avenue. Mr. Nyberg will be unavailable to attend our meeting on the 26th. <br /> I have spoke to Gerald Rehbein in regards to his project to revise the floodway width east of 20th <br /> Avenue. He plans to submit his information to FEMA along with a project that RCWD is <br /> pursuing to reduce the floodway width along the Clearwater Creek corridor through the City of <br /> Hugo. <br /> As Mr. Nyberg indicates in his letter, there would be a cost savings to submit this information <br /> with others submitting similar information. I am not sure how this would affect the review period <br /> required by FEMA to process the information. I have spoke to Mr. Nyberg and he has indicated <br /> that the City can send in the information at any time. I have placed a call to Jim Hoeft to discuss <br /> whether or not the City can deviate from our own ordinances to go ahead and purchase a <br /> property that is in the floodway with not enough available land out of the floodway to rebuild in <br /> case of a natural disaster. According to the Uniform Building Code, the City could rebuild a <br /> structure in the floodway as long as the building was designed to protect against flooding. <br />