Minimally Floodprone Community
Minimally Floodprone Community :
A community that FEMA has determined to be subject to inundation by the 1-percent-annual-chance (100-year) flood, but for which existing conditions indicate that the area is unlikely to be developed in the foreseeable future. The criteria used by FEMA to evaluate a community's development potential are as follows: (1) Floodplains are publicly owned and designed for open space or preservation; (2) Zoning laws, sanitary codes, subdivision regulations, shore land regulations, or community regulations effectively prohibit floodplain development; (3) Surrounding land use or topography effectively limits the development potential; (4) Population is decreasing or stable, and there is no foreseeable pressure for floodplain development; and (5) Floodplains are remote and uninhabited, and future development is unlikely
