It's not gonna just break this piece off.

But that's still gonna affect the foot or the this is a footer here.

It's still gonna affect that.

And then the pools right there.

We could be looking at major structural damage form.

Where two pounds would cost you what five, six thousand dollars.

They were like, just going from a paddle straight all the way down.

No, the only thing he's got here is a footer system.

So here's the other question for him that may help answer the question.

If you if you look at this cross section detail, it's seeing that I think the reason he's building this outer foundation wall is that he's planning on backfilling behind it and building all of this area as a patio.

Okay, the patio.

Good.

Okay.

Good afternoon.

I'd like to open up the meeting for the Board of Adjustment Appeals for today, August the 6th, 2025.

Um we have Mr.

Neville representing the city this morning.

Would you be sworn in, please?

I do.

Well you can place mics on the five time.

Hello.

Yes, you're hold on.

All right, good.

William Neville and the floodplain manager here for the city, and I'm glad to see the full board um ready to hear the first case and only case for today's meeting.

Um this is um BAA case 25 43, the coffin residence.

It this was um item was rescheduled from the last meeting.

And um I'll I'll just read the the request.

Board of Adjustments and Appeals is requested to consider and authorize a variance from the strict application of town code section 3871A5 minimum elevation requirements to reduce the minimum three-foot freeboard elevation requirement above the AE6 flood zone by approximately one foot for a lateral extension of open unenclosed decks to the rear of a proposed single family residence, which will otherwise meet required minimum lowest floor elevation.

So you've had a chance to review the the staff report.

I won't walk through all of it.

Um but basically the um entire new home that's being constructed um will meet the required nine foot uh flood elevation that would be based on the AE6 flood zone plus three feet of freeboard.

Um the main house is in the X zone, so technically it would only have to be built to an elevation 7.5.

But the uh the question for your consideration is um the construction of an extensive network of decks and possibly patios um to the rear of the house places the entire structure overlapping into the AE6 flood zone.

So our practice is to require the most restrictive um elevation.

Uh Mr.

Coffin has designed his building accordingly.

Um there are a couple things that we noticed on on reviewing the plans.

Um the I think the staff report called it an existing garage, the but the proposed garage facing South Hair and Gow Court is likely to meet an existing grade of seven or of five point five with a proposed elevation of seven.

It would require a non-conversion agreement to be signed by the owner for a permitted use below the required um elevation.

And that's that's standard practice.

Mr.

Coffin just signed one um here for one of his other houses that it's something we take care of um later in the process.

Um the blue again, the proposed lowest floor elevation of the main structure will comply with the required elevation.

Um the horizontal extension of the rear deck and patio system with finished elevations below nine feet would require approval of a minimum th one foot freeboard elevation variance.

Um the building permit plans do identify proposed HVAC mechanical and pool equipment that must meet uh these same code requirements for elevation.

And at the rear of the structure structure, we noted that um again, the the outdoor areas.

I'd like to come back and and talk in in detail about what's shown on some of the the um construction plans.

But the other thing that we we did notice with the architectural plans is that the crawl space below the main floor of the house may not uh drain out, it would be a subgrade crawl space, and I think that's the result of a decision to on the back of the house, instead of having an open area under a uh frame deck, it's potentially being filled to a foundation elevation.

And so, you know, again, we we will just need evidence and proof that the lowest adjacent grade to the crawl space is is at or below that crawl space elevation so that it can drain out.

Um so that's something that would could be solved with uh a detail on the plans, or we're gonna have to solve it later when we're doing inspections.

So I did want to show a few exhibits and then we'll go ahead and wrap this up.

Um if you could zoom in a little.

This is again our FEMA flood map, national flood hazard layer.

Um this site is uh was the site of a of a former structure that moved across the street.

So it's a fresh building site.

Um permit does allow for the construction on that otherwise vacant lot.

And so what you see though is that the majority of the lot is located outside of the flood zone.

This is the AE6 flood zone line that just encroaches onto the property behind the bulkhead.

Um, and then again, the black line is that one and a half foot wave height line that's about that's at the bulkhead.

So this is how we administer our floodplain ordinance and regulate um building construction is that uh we we look at those two lines.