Sec. 9-53.2. Basis for establishing the areas of special flood hazard.

The areas of special flood hazard identified by the Federal Insurance Administration (FIA) of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the Flood Insurance Study (FIS) in a scientific and engineering report entitled "The Flood Insurance Study for the City of Salinas," dated May 4, 1981, and accompanying Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and Flood Boundary and Floodway Maps (FBFMs), dated November 4, 1981, and all subsequent amendments and/or revisions, are hereby adopted by reference and declared to be a part of this article. The Flood Insurance Study (FIS) is on file at 200 Lincoln Avenue, Public Works Department. This FIS and attendant mapping are the minimum area of applicability of this article and may be supplemented by studies for other areas which allow implementation of this article and which are recommended to the city council by the floodplain administrator. (Ord. No. 1835 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2037 (NCS), § 3; Ord. No. 2383 (NCS), § 1.)