Hollywood, FL Hurricane Preparedness: Flood Elevation (2026)

City Code Chapter 154 governs construction in special flood hazard areas shown on the FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps. 50(C)(1)(a), new construction and substantial improvement of residential buildings must have the lowest floor, including any basement, elevated to or above the elevation required by the Florida Building Code, Residential or Building sections, or at least 18 inches above the highest point of the crown of all adjacent streets, or designed under an engineered rational-analysis method approved by the Director of Public Utilities. 50(C)(1)(b) must be elevated or dry floodproofed to the Florida Building Code elevation or at least six inches above the street crown.

50(C)(2) requires finished lot grade to be no lower than the crown of the adjacent street or top of sidewalk, with the finished grade at a residential building's perimeter at least six inches below the minimum building elevation. 2. 50(C)(3), may be used only for parking, limited storage, or building access, and cannot be temperature controlled, partitioned, or finished into rooms. 21 as work whose cumulative cost over a five-year period equals or exceeds 50% of the building's market value. 07, which must find that failure to grant relief would create exceptional hardship from the land's physical characteristics and that the variance is the minimum necessary; applicants seeking to build below the required elevation must receive written notice from the Floodplain Administrator disclosing that flood insurance could cost as much as $25 per $100 of coverage.