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FREEBOARD REQUIREMENTS FOR AREAS OF SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD
<br />Building Type
<br />Zones
<br />X
<br />A Coastal A V
<br />Residential structures
<br />+1'
<br />+1' +1'
<br />+2'
<br />Building and other structures with school or day care facilities, and other nonresidential
<br />structures not itemized below
<br />+1' +1'
<br />+2' +2'
<br />Essential facilities including, but not limited to: fire, rescue, ambulance, and police stations and
<br />emergency vehicle garages; buildings designated as emergency shelters; other facilities required
<br />for emergency response; hospitals and other health care facilities having surgery or emergency
<br />treatment facilities; power generating stations and other public utility facilities
<br />+1'
<br />+2' +2'
<br />+3'
<br />Buildings and other facilities that manufacture, process, handle, store, use, or dispose of
<br />hazardous materials
<br />+1'
<br />+2' +2'
<br />+3'
<br />Temporary structures
<br />n/a +1'
<br />+2' n/a
<br />® Hoboken's proposed Flood Damage Prevention Ordinance amendments include this new table detailing freeboard requirements based on
<br />flood zone and structure type.
<br />munity Affairs, released a request for proposals
<br />in October, seeking multidisciplinary consul-
<br />tant teams to develop a series of plans. The
<br />package includes development of new com-
<br />munity design standards, a hazard mitigation
<br />plan, an open space, recreation, and historic
<br />preservation plan, and new codes, ordinances,
<br />and standards, with an eye toward the sorts
<br />of design guidelines that would help Hoboken
<br />address those questions.
<br />FACING THE FUTURE
<br />Sandy was not an anomaly, any more than Ike
<br />or Katrina or countless other storms and floods
<br />have been anomalies. It was a signal that plan-
<br />ners need to anticipate such challenges as
<br />their communities continue to reinvent them-
<br />selves in the quest for economic resilience
<br />and an urban quality of life. Combining flood
<br />protection with an attractive urban environ-
<br />mentwill require creative design solutions,
<br />particularly in an era when climate change may
<br />raise the stakes for waterfront neighborhoods
<br />and commercial districts. Finding the kinds of
<br />adaptive solutions that New York is trying to
<br />define in the wake of Sandy is a matter not only
<br />of survival, but of restoring value to the urban
<br />core.
<br />That said, other cities may well have to un-
<br />dertake exercises similar to that in New York, yet
<br />unique to their own history and circumstances.
<br />With growing numbers of Americans moving to
<br />coastal areas, those cities will need to deter-
<br />mine how best to maintain the attractionsof the
<br />urban shoreline while adequately protecting
<br />those areas from coastal storms and flooding.
<br />This is no small issue for the future of American
<br />urban planning. With hundreds of billions of
<br />dollars of urban real estate at stake, it may well
<br />become one of the most important.
<br />a helpmitigate the visual effects of a home that has' elevated its ftrstfleoras a flood protection measure
<br />verimage reprinted with permission from the City of Newyork design, concept by;Lisa Bartont„
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