Ithaca’s Common Council will vote to adopt new FEMA flood maps and update floodplain management regulations at 6 p.m.

FEMA has issued updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps for the City of Ithaca that will have a major impact on some residents if ...

Failure to adopt the Rate Maps would suspend the city from the National Flood Insurance Program, making access to insurance more difficult for Ithaca property ... be updating area flood maps.