Along ellis boulavard people still enjoy riverfront property while some in cedar rapidswere a part of buyouts after the 2008 flood the cityturning their homes along the river into greenspacedriveways can be foundleading to nowhere. Some current homeownersworriedt elling us off camerathey dont intend to leave their homes several of them hanging pirate flags last week to symbolize being on barriers were not going to be probably approaching them for a better part of a decade. The mayor says although there will be future buyoutsin order for permanent flood protection they will be optional. Our hope is to negotiate a sale price with all of these properties that are going to be on the wet side but again its not a mandatory sale, the city is not instead he says they are example of what this permanent flood Protection System could the idea is during a flood downtown is operating as normal. But the city saysthey have about twothirds of the promised since 2008still hasnt come through. Congress h
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