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BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Some residents are concerned after getting hit with an unexpected bill from FEMA. FEMA’s revised flood zone maps now have them in a flood zone, when they weren’t ...
These FIRMs are used in identifying whether a land or building is in flood zone and, if so, which of the different flood zones are in effect. In 2004, FEMA began a project to update and digitize the flood plain maps at a yearly cost of $200 million. The new maps usually take around 18 months to go from a preliminary release to the final product.
Miami-Dade County was the first in Florida to certify hurricane-resistant standards for structures which the Florida Building Code subsequently enacted across all requirements for hurricane-resistant buildings. Many other states reference the requirements set in the Florida Building codes, or have developed their own requirements for hurricanes ...
The Tampa Bay market is reportedly seeing dozens of such listings from homeowners desperate to get rid of houses that have become liabilities. “I just want to leave,” St. Petersburg homeowner ...
New Tampa is a region in Florida that encompasses both a 24-square-mile (62 km 2) area within the corporate limits of the City of Tampa, as well as a larger land area that is in unincorporated Hillsborough, but retains a Tampa mailing address. The incorporated portion of "New Tampa" that lies within the city limits of Tampa is one of the ...
Situated on Davis Islands, which was built in the 1920s from mud dredged from the bottom of Tampa Bay, the hospital is already in a high-risk flood zone, according to Hillsborough County's Flood ...
The city of Tampa, Florida is officially divided into six geographical regions: New Tampa, West Tampa, Brooklyn Village, Downtown Tampa, Ybor City, and Channel District each coinciding with a respective Tampa City Council district. [1]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on Wednesday announced finalized rules for the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS). The FFRMS is a flexible federal standard requiring ...