Duties and responsibilities of the floodplain administrator shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a) Maintain and hold open for public inspection all records pertaining to the provisions of this article;
(b) Review permit applications for sites located in, or adjacent to, the regulatory floodplain, including the placement of manufactured homes, to determine if the proposed development site will be reasonably safe from flooding;
(c) Review and approve or deny all applications for development permits required by adoption of this article;
(d) Review permits for proposed development within a floodplain to provide reasonable assurance that all other necessary permits have been obtained from those federal, state or local governmental agencies (including § 404 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972, 33 U.S.C. 1334) from which prior approval is required;
(e) Review all applications for permits for development within a floodplain to determine if the proposed development is located in the floodway. If located in the floodway, assure that the encroachment provisions of § 7-350(a) are met;
(f) Interpret, as needed, the exact location of the boundaries of the areas of special flood hazards. For example, where there appears to be a conflict between a mapped boundary and actual field conditions, the floodplain administrator shall make the necessary interpretation. The floodplain administrator shall make such determinations in a reasonably prudent manner. When any such interpretation results in a determination that an area is not a special flood hazard, the issuance of any building permits for any part of the area subsequent thereto shall be subject to the applicant's agreement to indemnify, hold harmless, and defend the City of Fort Worth and the floodplain administrator for any adverse consequences resulting from or related to such a determination;
(g) Notify, in riverine situations, adjacent communities and the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and also the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), prior to any alteration or relocation of a watercourse, and submit evidence of such notification to the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
(h) Assure that the flood carrying capacity within the altered or relocated portion of any watercourse is maintained or increased;
(i) When base flood elevation data has not been provided in accordance this article, the floodplain administrator shall obtain, review and reasonably utilize, any base flood elevation data and floodway data available from a federal, state or other reliable source, in order to administer Division 4 of this article;
(j) When a regulatory floodway has not been designated, the floodplain administrator must require that no new construction, substantial improvements or other development (including the placement of fill) shall be permitted within zones A1-30 and AE on the community's FIRM, unless it is demonstrated that the cumulative effect of the proposed development, when combined with all other existing and anticipated development, will not increase the water surface elevation of the base flood more than one foot at any point within the community;
(k) Grant variances in conformance with the provisions of § 7-334, Variance procedures.
(l) Require applicants who submit hydrologic and hydraulic engineering analyses to support permit applications to submit to FEMA the data and information necessary to maintain the Flood Insurance Rate Maps when the analyses propose to change discharges, cross sections, base flood elevations, flood hazard area boundaries, or floodway designations; such submissions shall be made within six months of such data becoming available.
(Ord. 11998, § 1, passed 6-13-1995; Ord. 18816, § 5, passed 9-15-2009; Ord. 25350-03-2022, § 1, passed 3-8-2022, eff. 3-23-2022)