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• R A-Fprcx,r54) — LOUISVILLE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT STAFF REPORT May 17, 1995 APPLICANT: City of Louisville LOCATION: Coal Creek and the Burlington Northern Railroad Crossing, east of County Road No. 19. ZONING: Industrial USE: Open Space/ 100 Year Floodplain REQUEST: Floodplain Development Permit within the Coal Creek 100 year floodplain to construct a railroad bridge. BACKGROUND: Ordinance No. 1188, Series 1995 was recently approved which repealed and reenacted the floodplain management regulations for the City of Louisville. The revised ordinance was adopted at the direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to allow the City's continued participation in the Federal Flood Insurance Program. Section 17.56.150 (C) of the ordinance requires all uses within the flood regulatory district be required to have a Flood Development Permit. The Urban Drainage and Flood Control District (UDFCD) and Boulder County have been working with Burlington Northern to reconstnict the railroad crossing at Coal Creek. The scope of the project is to remove an undersized box culvert at the crossing and replace it with a new standard design railroad bridge. The bridge structure allows the clearance to construct an additional segment of the Coal Creek Regional Trial underneath the bridge as well as reducing the limits of the 100 year flood plain. UDFCD and Boulder County have contracted with Centennial Engineering to submit to FEMA a Conditional Letter of Map Revision (CLOMR), which will have the affect of amending the currently adopted Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM). A copy of the