FEMA and City of Austin buy out homes located in floodplains.

Over the years, City of Austin has allowed real estate development to build housing located in flood plains which is a mistake on the City of Austin’s part. Neighborhoods such as Onion Creek, Yarrabee Bend, Timber Creek, Jet Lane, Rainey Street, Onion Creek Plantations, Rio Lado, Austin Pecan Trailer Park, and Williamson Creek are prime examples of bad planning and the City of Austin allowing real estate development to build housing inside floodplains.

Many trailer parks and several neighborhoods in Austin, Texas have been zoned to floodplains unintentionally meaning that in the past the City of Austin has allowed neighborhoods and trailer parks to be built in floodplains. Allowing home owners and real estate agencies to build homes in floodplains is not always the brightest idea as results show. These neighborhoods and trailer parks wiped out clean as a result from constant flooding.Mold would grow inside after flooding happened. As a result of constant flooding where neighborhoods built located inside of floodplains, the City of Austin has bought land property from several homeowners and neighborhood associations.

Some of these neighborhoods and trailer parks are located inside a 25 year floodplain or are located inside a 100 year floodplain. The case in Austin is that usually neighborhoods and trailer parks that are located alongside a creek or river are built inside a 25 year floodplain. Such as is the case with neighborhoods Onion Creek, Yarrabee Bend, Timber Creek, Jet Lane, Rainey Street, Onion Creek Plantations, Rio Lado, Elmont, and Williamson Creek.

Over the past 10 years, the City of Austin and FEMA has bought land property from several homeowners. City of Austin developed various flood buyout plans for several neighborhoods over the years. It is April 2017 and the City of Austin still has pending transactions on various floodplain buyouts for properties where houses are located on.