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property that have rechanneled a majority of the flood that was through that corridor; and I believe in 2001 the Department of Water (sic) had changed the map. There is an updated version, other than this 1988. ROSS:See, are you sure you have the latest one? DARROW:Well, this was the one that the Department of Public Works Engineering Division provided to us. ROSS:Okay, so we can easily verify that. We can check that. Okay. Well, were going to meet the Code, no question. GRAHAM:Thank you, Mr. Miller. YUEN:Wait -. GRAHAM:Excuse me, Mr. Miller. YUEN:Wait a second. When you say were going to meet the Code -. As I said, this is rezoning, all right? If you had zoning and you were following Chapter 27, you could build on the floodway fringe. You know, you could flood proof the lower elevation. As a zoning condition our standard zoning condition says no construction in any part of the flood zone. ROSS:The 100-year flood? YUEN:Yes, whats shown as Flood Zone A in the FIRM maps. ROSS:And thats your standard procedure now? YUEN:Yes, right. ROSS:Im informed. YUEN:Wait. Youre not going, are you going to fight us on this point? ROSS:You know, I dont think so; but I want to go and look at this map. Its amazing to me that the subdivision map that was done five years ago could be 50 percent of the width of the FIRM map. Thats not just a small error. Thats a huge error. And so I dont know, but to have confidence -. I dont know if Mr. Miller is correct and whether we have the latest FIRM map in our hands or not. So, I mean, what Im hearing you say is thats your standard procedure. We need to accept that. I mean, but Im just saying lets make sure we have the latestmap,letsmakesureitsoverlaidcorrectlyontheplotsothatwhenwehavethelines drawnitsdrawnintherightplace.Becausethisisnta10percenterror.Thisisa100percent errorthatwasdonewhenthesubdivisionwasapproved.So-. GRAHAM:Mr.Ross,IthinkwhatthePlanningDirectorisjustsayingisthatour conditionofzoningsaysyoucannotmakestructuralimprovementsinthatZoneA,butwerenot passingyouanofficialmapthatgoeswithyourzoningthattellsyouwhereZoneAis.Sothatif youandtheDepartmentofPublicWorks,youknow,workoutaboundarythatissuitableto themaboutwhatisZoneA,thenthatswhatthisrezoningappliesto. ROSS:You know, I guess Im trying to digest the impact of whats being told us right here on my feet; and what Im hearing is that there is a policy that the Planning Director is following. Really, it doesnt really matter what I think about that policy, thats the policy hes following. So I dont know other having heard what he said whether I like it or not, you know -. 10EXHIBIT C