FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Some homeowners in Williamson County said they are angry because they will now have to pay for flood insurance.

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Changes to federal flood-plain maps mean that some residents will now have to pay for flood insurance that many of them said they don't think they need.

Angela Mehuron said that half of her house was designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as being in a flood plain and that that is a costly designation. She has lived in the house for 30 years.

“When I go to tell someone, ‘No I've never had a flood problem,’ they'll look at the city records which now include me in a flood plain,” she said.

Mehuron said that means anyone wanting to buy her house will likely not meet her asking price.

Mehuron said it is worse for her neighbors in Brentwood who don’t own their own homes because their mortgage companies will now require them to pay for flood insurance now that FEMA has placed them in a flood plain.

“I've lived here half a lifetime and never experienced any flooding,” she said.

People in Brentwood and Franklin said it's a mistake and that they don't need flood insurance.

“The flood lain areas have increased in some areas and they've decreased in others,” said Brentwood City Planner Todd Petrowski.

Petrowski said if people really want FEMA to make a change, they'll have to pay for their land to be resurveyed and that costs more than flood insurance.

“FEMA, in my experience, will not just change the maps because X number of people are complaining,” he said.

Mehuron said a creek used to flood her subdivision on occasion, but it was repaired 12 years ago.

"It's a very unfair thing to plop on us when our only problem, which was a flooding creek many years ago, has been resolved,” she said.

FEMA said they want the best flood maps they can possibly get and that if people can provide new information that will help, they want to hear about it.