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Highwood is a compact Lake Michigan community wedged between ravines in southeastern Lake County. Flood exposure is limited to low-lying parcels near those ravine channels, so an Elevation Certificate is relevant chiefly for that subset.
A FEMA Elevation Certificate documents your building’s elevation relative to the Base Flood Elevation on the FEMA flood map. Insurers use it to rate flood policies and communities use it to confirm floodplain compliance; it can also support a Letter of Map Amendment (LOMA) to remove a structure from a flood zone.
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Highwood has roughly 5,074 residents in Moraine Township, part of Lake County, seated at Waukegan. Where the city’s ravine drainageways create localized mapped floodplain, a surveyor’s Elevation Certificate ties a building’s lowest-floor elevation to the Base Flood Elevation. That record enables accurate flood-insurance rating, supports floodplain-development permits, and can back a Letter of Map Amendment. Highwood survey documents are recorded through the Recording Division of the Lake County Clerk’s Office.
No, flood exposure is limited to parcels near the city’s ravines and drainageways; most of the compact community sits outside mapped flood hazard areas.
It is a FEMA form completed by a surveyor documenting a building’s floor elevations against the Base Flood Elevation for insurance and floodplain purposes.
Its measured elevation data is the technical evidence FEMA reviews when deciding whether to remove a structure from the mapped floodplain.
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