1 county-level rule, plus city-specific rules for 3 cities in Racine County, Wisconsin.
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Wis. Stat. §87.30 requires every Wisconsin city, village, town, and county with FEMA-mapped floodplain to adopt a floodplain zoning ordinance meeting Wis. Admin. Code ch. NR 116 and 44 CFR 59-72 (NFIP). Racine County participates in the NFIP and regulates floodplains along the Root River, Fox River, Pike River, and the Lake Michigan shoreline. Wisconsin's flood protection elevation is 2 feet above the regional (1% annual chance) flood elevation - a state-mandated freeboard stricter than the FEMA minimum.
Wis. Stat. §87.30(1)(a), (2)(a)
87.30(1)(a) (a) If any county, city or village does not adopt a reasonable and effective floodplain zoning ordinance within one year after hydraulic and engineering data adequate to formulate the ordinance becomes available, the department shall, upon petition of an interested state agency or a municipality or upon its own motion as soon as practicable and after public hearing, determine and fi...
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