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Received an e-mail from a client I prepared an elevation certificate for earlier this year, and she sent me a requirement from the City of East Palo Alto which states: "A complete Elevation Certificate submittal requires the following information to be included with the FEMA Form:
Record of survey - technical requirement (B&P Code §§ 8764)"

Really???

I talked to the Director of Community Development and have begun discussion with him explaining a R.O.S. relates to boundary, where the FEMA EC relates to flood elevation issues. He will review this concern.

Has anyone else ever heard of such a requirement? The City will not "approve" my EC because I haven't submitted a R.O.S. Can someone show me in the FEMA Instructions where it states a R.O.S. is required with an EC? LOL!!! Furthermore, since when does a City get to "approve" or "disapprove" an EC? Only FEMA and lenders have ever questioned the information in my EC's in the past.

Stay tuned, but I see the City revising their requirements shortly.

I have not run into this,
I would send them the tract map and see what happens
Clearly a true Record of Survey is not required, they have likely mixed up the verbage.
But in my experience the building dept gets what they ask for if the Elev cert is related to construction

Govt agencies are looking for work and requiring needless BS and, as in tbohan's case, they lost one argument but keep making the same requirements.