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The City of Belmont has established citywide floodplain management regulations to protect public health, safety, and general welfare, and to minimize public and private losses due to flood conditions in all publicly and privately-owned land within flood prone, mudslide, or flood related erosion areas.
Per Belmont Municipal Code, Chapter 7, Article IX, Section 7-204, the City has established the following floodplain management methods to reduce flood losses:
“(1) Restrict or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or flood heights or velocities;
(2) Require that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;
(3) Control the alteration of natural floodplains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters;
(4) Control filling, grading, dredging, and other development which may increase flood damage; and
(5) Prevent or regulate the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally divert flood waters or which may increase flood hazards in other areas. (Ord. No. 975, § 1, 11-27-01).”
As part of the redevelopment of the City-owned Firehouse Square property, BKF Engineers is applying for a Letter of Map Revision (LOMR) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (DHS-FEMA) on behalf of MidPen Housing and the City of Belmont to revise Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) 06081C0169F for Belmont, California along Belmont Creek between 6th Avenue and Old County Road. The City of Belmont is proposing to revise the FIRM to correct past errors in the map and reflect the current as-built creek condition which includes a series of culverts placed in Belmont Creek in late 1940’s using different conduit sizes in piecemeal as development occurred in this area.
The LOMR will result in establishment of Base (1% annual chance) Flood Elevations (BFEs) and revision of the SFHA between 6th Avenue and El Camino Real in Belmont, California. The revision will result in removal of the effective flood hazard Zone A and establishment of flood hazard Zone AH (https://snmapmod.snco.us/fmm/document/fema-flood-zone-definitions.pdf).
For more information, please refer to the Property Owner Letter Notification and updated FIRM map.
If you have further questions regarding floodplain management, please contact the City of Belmont Public Works Department at pworks@belmont.gov or (650) 595-7425. To find out if you are in a flood zone, click here.
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