Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
Part 5 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. Most communities have already mapped their risks. They know which roads flood first, which low-water crossings become impassable, which neighborhoods have limited ways in or out, and which public facilities lose power when the weather turns bad. […]
Part 4 of 5 in our August series on Public Safety and Hazard Mitigation in the Comprehensive Plan. Nearly every comprehensive plan acknowledges flood risk. Too seldom do our planning processes translate that acknowledgment into effective floodplain management. Every community has a relationship with water. Some are defined by a major river, a lake, a […]
Part 3 of 4 in our July series on Natural Resources and the Comprehensive Plan. Nearly every comprehensive plan maps wetlands. Very few put them to work. The natural resources chapter almost always includes a reference to the National Wetlands Inventory, a figure showing riverine and palustrine systems, and a general goal about “protecting wetland […]
