B.   Reduced property damage as a result of coastal flooding and storms

1. Change public understanding of risks due to coastal flooding and storms/ change behavior

2. Regulate construction in coastal at-risk areas (including building codes and zoning)

3. Where appropriate, build structures to mitigate intensity of storm/flooding effects, such as flood containment and erosion control

 

EXISTING PROGRAMS:

1.      Outreach

·        Citizen Watershed groups

·        DCR

·        Community Education

·        Flood Prevention Protection Fund –DCR

·        Floodplain  Management Program – DCR

·        Public Beach Board

·        SEAS

·        Riparian restoration programs

·        Floodplain maps

·         National Flood Insurance Program

 

2.      Regulation 

·         Building code

·         Coastal Primary Sand Dune Permits - VMRC

·         FEMA Programs

·         Local zoning

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N/A

 

 

 

 

 

3.      Monitoring 

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4.      Planning/coordination 

·        Department of Emergency Services programs

·        HRPDC regional emergency management

 

 

 

5.      Research

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N/A

 

MISSING ELEMENTS:

1.       Outreach

·         develop shoreland managment tool

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Regulation

·         Increase riparian buffers (full 100' buffer implementation and enforcement)

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Authority

·         Prevent development in floodplain from non-dependent use

·         Implement mandatory stormwater management to reduce impacts of no or ineffective management of runoff

 

 

 

4.  Monitoring

·         Inventory coastal areas at risk due to coastal flooding/storms (database or GIS)

 

 

 

5.  Planning/coordination

·         Establish state leadership for planning and risk reduction

·         Increase/establish local/state coordination in planning and regulation to reduce risks

 

 

 

6.  Research

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7.   Definition of management targets

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