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272 April II, 1979 Treatment Center and that there was somewhat of a committment to ser- vice this with munciOal service in the very near future. Mr. Gourley said one area he has problems with is the area of multiple family dwellings. This Board gets requests tor multi family dwellings that do not agree wi+h what was outlined in the Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Plan shows multi famiily dwellings in the northern part of the City. Since the interceptor is located in the southern part of the Citr that is where the requests are coming from and changes should be amde in the Comprehensive Plan so that the sewer plan and the multi family dwellings coi. ns i de . Mr. Gourley suggested that. Mr. Mobley can address the problem of drain- age. This area is not addressed in the present Comprehensive Plan. Now ponding is occurring all over the City andwe should address our- selves to a City wide drainage plan. Mr. Shearen asked if the Rice Creek Watershed District (RCWD) is suppose to be watching this area. Mr. Gourley said they are suppose to but presently are concerning them- selves with only. platting. Mr. McLean noted the City had already con- tacted the RCWD about this problem. The RCWD has suggested a drainage plan on some sort of a district basis but the City is to_provide the plan, RCWD will then approve the plan. Mr. Gourley wanted ,to know if the RCWD is doing this City any good at this point in time. Mr. McLean said what will happen is that this City will design and coordinate the planning of a City wide pond area. Mr. Gotwald said what should happen is for the City to prepare a map desig- nating wetland areas showing elevations for each subdistrict and estab- lishing the lowest elevation houses can be built at. This will take new buildings out of the flood plain areas. Later on areas will be selected for wet areas reserved for drainage. There could be problems with this. The land owner could object. Mr. McLean asked Mr. Gotwald what it will take to get this map. Mr. Gotwald said he had a map with all the elevations for the whole City. He explained there is:a study going on now by engineers hired by the State to work on the flood insurance map. Mr. Mobley explained the pre- sent map is in 10' grids and they are demanding maps in 2' grid which costs upwards to $30,000 to prepare. Mr. Mobley explianed these engineers are using out of date maps. He further talked about the visit he had with these engineers last summer and the problems with the maps they were using. He said he would like to see our City staff design flow out plans. Presently there is several problems with several plats in this City. Mr. Reinert asked why these maps are not challenged if they are in- accurate? Mr. Mobley said he did just that. Mr. Mobley said he has not challengedthe soils maps just the maps from Metro and some other state agencies. Mr. Gotwald said the more he looks at it the more ac- curate the Soils map looks. Mr. Reinert suggested that these maps should be sorted out. Mr. Gotwald said the City must be careful in preparing the flood plain map since FHA and some other lending institutions may not approve mortgages if they do not carry flood insurance. He also explained the maps they are asking this City to prepare are•very expensive. He also explained he could prepare a map that would be better and then someday prepare what is required by the State. Mr. McLean asked Mr. Gotwald what would be the nest step in preparing this map. Mr. Gotwald said it is not required for the Comprehensive Plan al- though he thought Metro will get involved with storm waters management.