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CONTRIBUTED BY NIXON LEBRUN Assistant Director, Building Planning & Zoning Department
The City of Miramar is always striving to find new
ways to ensure compliance with the requirements of
the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and the
Community Rating System (CRS). In fact, the City has
recently partnered with Forerunner Industries Inc., a
Delaware-based software company, to digitize the
City’s floodplain management program, thereby creating significant efficiencies for City staff by aggregating
disparate flood information into a single dashboard and automating many workflows and reports. The Forerunner application will go a long way in helping the City increase the number of creditable activities it can submit to the Federal Management Agency
(FEMA) for its CRS cycle verification, which can lead to higher CRS rating
and therefore greater flood insurance discounts.
The City’s official website now features a link to a public version of the
Forerunner application for the City for all community members to access
available flood risk data for individual properties. The site will make it easier
for homeowners, contractors, insurance agents, and realtors to learn about a
property’s flood-related risk and potential insurance compliance requirements.
The public website can be accessed online at: https://miramarfl.withfore-runner.com/ and will enable community members to perform the following searches:
SEARCH FOR A PROPERTY’S
FLOOD RISK:
Each property in the City will have a unique public profile with available flood data. Community members can now search for a property on the home-page by address to find its flood zone, FEMA- provided Base Flood Elevation (BFE). Design Flood Elevation (DFE), important flood-compliance-related warnings, and more.
FIND ELEVATION CERTIFICATES AND OTHER IMPORTANT FLOOD-RELATED
DOCUMENTS FOR A PROPERTY:
Need an Elevation certificate for a permit or for insurance purposes? If there is document on file, community members can now find it in the searchable Elevation Certificate page , or on the property’s unique public profile – saving the cost of getting a new one.
REVIEW SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT/ SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE INFORMATION FOR A PROPERTY:
Homeowners seeking to make improvements to a property may unknowingly nearing the property’s substantial improvement threshold, i.e., improvements in the last 5 years amounting to half of the assessed value of the current structure on the property. The site contains a property’s previous improvement or damages that will help community members understand possible limitations to their plans.
For more information, please contact Nixon Lebrun, AICP, MPA, CFM, Assistant Director of Building, Planning and Zoning at Nlebrun@miramarfl.gov or (954) 602-3281.
