On Sat, 8 Apr 2017 22:38:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 4/8/2017 8:48 PM, wrote:

In many cases you can't even get a building permit in a flood plain
up here.


Why would you want one? Unless you are building a house on stilts.

Because, with national flood insurance, "we can have this awesome view
and someone else will make us whole if it floods again". It's gotten
harder to pull this sort of thing off but that's what these laws were
addressing.