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66 <br />Glenn Bowles: That is correct The majority of the people who have active policies in this county do not have property <br />that is even in a designated flood plain. Sometimes you have over exuberant insurers and mortgage companies that <br />demand it <br />Brian Crawford: Can you purchase private flood insurance? <br />Glenn Bowles: I am assuming that someone would insure for water damage. <br />Tommy McNeill: For homeowners who have chosen not to purchase flood insurance, are there any educational <br />courses to discuss the consequences of not doing so? <br />Glenn Bowles: I have had two outreach meetings with a number of those people. Very few choose to come to those <br />meetings. Most people choose not to buy it. In this last mailing, we sent 1,800 or so mailings, which were the first time <br />we had' a good outreach, program on that discussion. We tell them that insurance is not mandatory on our part Most <br />are not interested in buying it. We are on the sidelines when it comes to flood insurance. <br /> <br />AGENDA ITEM 9: ZONING ORDINANCE AND ATLAS AMENDMENTS: TO ESTABLISH A NEW OVERLAY DISTRICT AND TO <br />INCORPORATE THE EXISTING FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION ORDINANCE INTO THE ZONING <br />ORDINANCE AND SUBDMSION REGULATIONS <br />To consider a recommendation to the BOCC regarding this item heard at the February 23, <br />2009 Quarterly Public Hearing <br />Presenter: Glenn Bowles, Planner II <br />Glenn Bowles: Reviewed the abstract. <br />PURPOSE: To receive the referral from the BOCC regarding proposed amendments to the Subdivision Regulations, <br />Zoning Ordinance, and Zoning Atlas that create a new Zoning Ordinance Overlay District from the Flood Insurance <br />Rate Map (FIRM) and incorporate flood protection standards of the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance (FDPO) into <br />the text of both regulations and to make recommendations back to the BOCC. <br />BACKGROUND: Responding to the Community Assistance Visit of August 21 and 22, 2008, the County received <br />a November 7, 2008 letter from Mr. Ken Ache, of the North Carolina Emergency Management Division, outlining <br />necessary revisions to the Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance. A checklist was attached to the November 7~ <br />letter (See Attachments 1 and 2 for the letter and checklist). The County responded to Mr. Ashe's letter on <br />November 12~ and requested a time extension to adequately schedule for inclusion of the amendments at the <br />next available Quarterly Public Hearing (February 23, 2009). <br />The changes proposed do not amend the adopted February 2, 2007 flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs), except <br />for the FEMA-approved revisions since then. <br />In coordination with the amendments to the FDPO, the County Attorney recommended that the required <br />amendments to the FDPO and the amended FDPO be incorporated into the Zoning Ordinance as text <br />amendments and a new Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay District, which would be delineated on the Zoning <br />Atlas. <br />Thus the Zoning Ordinance amendments take on five (5) different aspects: <br />1. Incorporating the amended FDPO text into the Zoning Ordinance text; <br />2. Making bona fide farming operations subject to Special Flood Hazard Area Overlay District standards, <br />regulations, procedures, and definitions; <br />3: Creating a new Zoning Overlay District -Special Flood Hazard Areas (SERA); <br />4. Affim~ing the various amendments to the FIRM (future SFHA Overlay District) that FEMA approved on <br />February 2, 2007; and <br />