Our project is an educational center adjacent to a wetlands area. The question regards the site selection point, which includes five different criteria. One of these is to locate 100\' from a wetland, which we have done. Another is to avoid "land whose elevation is lower than 5 feet above the elevation of the 100-year floodplains as defined by FEMA". The building site for our project straddles the contour line that defines this 5\' limit above the flood plain. The question is: is any cut and fill allowable to meet the stated goal? Specifically, we are proposing that: (1) cut and fill would be balanced so that there would be no change in the function of the flood storage zone five feet above the plain, and: (2) there would be no change at all - no cut or fill - to the flood plain itself, only to the zone defined by this five foot line. In our mind, this addresses the concern that flood plains not be manipulated and that flood water not be displaced offsite.
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