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volve personal matters. Like who we rent from. Even if they’re renting to the public, it’s a private matter to them,” Luke said, assuring the Supervisors again that he would “look into the intent” of the Freedom of Information Law.
ONCE discussion about the Freedom of Information Law was over, the Supervisors talked briefly about flood insurance and noted that “budget time is coming up.”
If the county adopts the federal flood insurance program, it would allow individuals to apply for the program and* collect for property damage from high water. In order to participate in the federal program, the county must pass a resolution stating that they want to become a part of the program, provide for building permit review and adopt the state building code.
H.B. Wood asked, “Do you know anyone who wants this insurance?” Luke said he didn’t, but suggested he might write an article explaining the program and provide a way for people to notify the clerk’s office if they were. That way they’d have some indication of how many people would want it.
Luke said that the federal flood insurance program classified far more land as “flood plain” than is shown as such in Rappahannock’s soil and zoning maps. “Their flood plain designation is much broader. They went on the 100-year flood analysis.” Herbert Foster wondered how many more acres were in the
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