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Community Survey

Thank you for coming to this website to learn more about the San Antonio Regional Flood Planning Group’s (SARFPG) activities to develop a plan to prevent and reduce flooding in this entire region. By informing you of its goals, the SARFPG is seeking to enhance your understanding of the kinds of activities included in flood prevention and reduction. We are asking you to review the goal statements listed below and indicate your level of support for these goals.
 
Before we ask you to give us your opinion on the goals, it might be helpful to provide definitions of some of the terms and acronyms used in the statements. Definitions include:
  • NFIP-National Flood Insurance Program
  • FEMA-Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • FPR-Flood Planning Region
  • NBS-Nature-based Solutions:  actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.
  • 100-year flood- indicates the likelihood of a given flood event to be equaled or exceeded in any given year. In other words, there’s one chance in a hundred that a flood like that would happen again in one year.
  • 1% chance future conditions floodplain- the 100-year flood estimated inundation boundary due to a creek or river.
  • 500-year flood- Indicates there is a one in 500 chance that any given flood event may happen again in one year.
  • NFHL- National Flood Hazard Layer- current effective flood hazard data to support the National Flood Insurance Program. You can use the information to better understand your level of flood risk and type of flooding.
  • FIS- Flood Insurance Study - A compilation and presentation of flood risk data for specific watercourses, lakes, and coastal flood hazard areas within a community.
 
Below you will find summary statements of the SARFG’s goals for the next 30 years. Some are expected to be achieved in 10 years and others are on the 30-year planning horizon.
(Please note that the statements below are summaries of the actual goal statements. If you would like to see the complete goal statements, along with their with success measures, please go to www.region12texas.org.) This survey includes a scale to allow you to indicate your level of agreement with the statement. Please indicate by checking the appropriate box below.
Improve Public Safety and Risk Management

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* 1. Support and expand the development of a regionally coordinated warning and emergency response program that can detect the flood threat and provide timely warning of impending flood danger to reduce flood deaths and high water rescues across the region.

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* 2. Decrease the average age of FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs/NFHL/FIS) to less than 10 years.

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* 3. Increase the number of entities that regulate new development and redevelopment in the future 100-year floodplain.

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* 4. Reduce the number of repetitive-loss NFIP properties in the flood planning region.

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* 5. Reduce the number of existing (2022) residential properties in the 100-year floodplain.

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* 6. Reduce the number of vulnerable critical facilities (such as hospitals, schools and public safety locations) located within the existing and future 100-year floodplain.

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* 7. Identify and eliminate or mitigate the eligible top 50 vulnerable roadway segments and low water crossings located within the existing and future 100-year floodplain.

Enhance Emergency Response

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* 8. Increase the number of flood gauges (rainfall, stream, reservoir, etc.) in the region to provide localized information to emergency responders, and access to that data for future reference.

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* 9. Increase the number of entities that communicate real-time flood warnings to the public. Leverage mobile phone navigation apps to provide real-time rerouting for the public.

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* 10. Increase the number to 100% of entities that conduct detailed studies to update their local flood risk.

Increase Awareness and Education

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* 11. Track and document existing public outreach and education activities and increase them from 6 to 12 per year to improve awareness of flood hazards and benefits of flood planning including nature-based solutions in the region.

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* 12. Increase the proficiency of stakeholders and floodplain managers across the region, adding to their knowledge of nature-based solutions, floodplain preservation and cost/benefit of traditional structural solutions.

Strengthen Infrastructure

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* 13. Increase the number of entities that have adopted a holistic watershed approach using existing Natural Flood Mitigation Features (NFMF) such as headwaters, buffers, and conservation easements for flood risk reduction as a basis for comprehensive subdivision regulations.

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* 14. Establish a baseline and increase the number of acres of publicly protected and restored open space as part of land conservation and acquisitions to reduce future impacts of flooding.

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* 15. Increase the number of structural projects that include a Nature-Based Solution (NBS) or Green Infrastructure (GI) component.

Please respond to the questions below using the scale provided.

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* 16. Flooding is not a concern in my community.

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* 17. The community is prepared to respond to flood events.

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* 18. If the goals listed above are achieved, the community will be safer and better prepared to respond to flood events.

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* 19. What other flooding-related goals do you think the San Antonio Regional Flood Planning Group should be considering?

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* 20. Please give us a little information about yourself. What is your zip code?
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* 21. How did you find out about this meeting?

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