City Council Meeting Date: April 18, 2017
To: Mayor and City Council
City Administrator
From: Scott Tempel, City Planner
Title
Consideration of Floodplain Conditional Use Permit - The Crossing Fairfield Inn and Suites.
Body
Action Requested:
The Northfield City Council is asked to consider a Resolution approving a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) in the Floodplain Overlay District for the Fairfield Inn and Suites at The Crossing, 114 East 2nd Street.
Summary Report:
The developers of the Fairfield Inn and Suites at The Crossing received site plan approval in 2016 and their building permit application is in review. Part of the building permit review process is to ensure adequate flood protection and safety. During the review, the lowest floor elevation of the hotel (the underground garage floor) was found to be two feet below the regulatory flood protection elevation or base flood elevation (BFE). This floor elevation would only be allowed as a conditional use per the Land Development Code (LDC). Therefore, the developers must dry-flood-proof the garage space in accordance to language from 4.1.5 (3) Development Standards for the Flood Fringe Subdistrict in order to obtain the CUP. The LDC Flood Fringe Subdistrict language states:
All areas of nonresidential structures including basements to be placed below the regulatory flood protection elevation shall be flood-proofed in accordance with the structurally dry-flood-proofing classifications in the state building code. Structurally dry-flood-proofing must meet the FP1 or FP2 flood proofing classification in the state building code and this shall require making the structure watertight with the walls substantially impermeable to the passage of water and with structural components having the capability of resisting hydrostatic and hydrodynamic loads and the effects of buoyancy. Structures flood-proofed to the FP3 or FP4 classification shall not be permitted.
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