Jennifer Severski’s home is barely in the floodplain – just her garage – but that’s enough to bump her yearly insurance bill from $300 to $3,000 .

Severski, who lives in the Shooks Run neighborhood, was one of more than 50 El Paso County residents who lined on up Wednesday night to learn about possible changes to local floodplain maps during an information session hosted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Due to be releasedin 2017 , updated floodplain maps could remove some residents like Severski from the floodplain and move others into the flood zone, triggering a requirement for flood insurance .

On Wednesday, Severski and a floodplain mapper bent over a laptop to see if her garage would be removed from the floodplain. The updated maps showed that the garage will again be in the danger zone for flooding unless Severski contests the new maps.

The new maps will be unlikely to trigger major changes in El Paso County, said Keith Curtis, El Paso County’s floodplain administrator. Before Wednesday’s meeting, Curtis sent postcards to about 6,000 county residents who will be impacted by the changes – either by being removed from the floodplain or put in it. The new maps should bring greater accuracy and detail to the floodplain, which could benefit some residents, Curtis said.

But for residents like Severski, who is heavily affected by a property that is only partially in the floodplain, the only recourse is appealing to get the maps reassessed and changed, Curtis said. Severski doesn’t think she’ll file a letter of map revision since she has flood insurance, she said.

Before FEMA representatives spent nearly two hours with residents going over floodplain maps, they met with city officials to discuss concerns. For the past few months, a major issue for Colorado Springs officials has been the future of a yet-to-be built homeless services hub, the location for which will be removed from the floodplain.

Fast-tracking revisions to some of the floodplain maps is critical to the construction of the center, which is planned for an area south of downtown Colorado Springs. Springs Rescue Mission plans to build a homeless shelter and a homeless day center by October 2016 at its campus west of Tejon Street on Las Vegas Street.

Construction on those projects can not begin, however, until the campus is removed from the FEMA floodplain maps. Time is of the essence, due to the city’s deep shortage of homeless shelter space, and officials have applied to have the floodplain map approved before the 2017 changes go into effect.

On Wednesday, officials got the go-ahead to submit a plan that would allow the floodplain map to be finalized more quickly, but only for the location of the future homeless center, said Tim Mitros, the city’s stormwater manager. Once submitted, FEMA will have 90 days to approve the new plan, at which point construction on the center can begin, Mitros said.

“FEMA is totally aware of this project now at the Washington, D.C. level, and so I am really hoping it goes through,” Mitros said.

Meanwhile, the rest of El Paso County will have to wait until late 2016 or early 2017 for approval of the final floodplains. FEMA doesn’t have plans to host another meeting, but residents can view the maps online and can contact Curtis to discuss concerns about the new layout.