The City of Sioux Falls, in conjunction with the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will be hosting four open houses during the new year to inform property owners about the preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map.

Property owners can attend any one of the four open houses, but comments and information within each open house will be directed to specific geographic areas—east or west of Minnesota Avenue. Based upon the comments received to date, most property owners have similar issues within their neighborhoods (e.g., some are creek and levee related, while others are river related); therefore, time will be best served for the property owners to talk about their issues with similar people.

The open house format will be set up with stations to give people information on:

• A video with background information—also available at www.siouxfalls.org
• The location of the floodplain to their property
• Questions about floodplain insurance
• The Corps of Engineers and City of Sioux Falls levee system
• Evaluating flood risk
• Summary of Map Amendments/Map Revisions

Wednesday, January 23, Maricar Community Center; 400 North Valley View Road

• 5:00–6:30 p.m. Property owners east of Marion Road and west of Minnesota Avenue
• 6:30–8:00 p.m. Property owners west of Marion Road and northwest Sioux Falls

Thursday, January 24, Morningside Community Center; 2400 South Bahnson Avenue

• 5:00–6:30 p.m. Non-residential property owners (commercial, office, institutional)
• 6:30–8:00 p.m. Property owners east of Minnesota Avenue

Please contact Jeff Schmitt, Floodplain Administrator, at 367-8888 or Tom Berkland, Principal Engineer, at 367-8601 for more information.