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0 Widespread damage and some areas with near total housing losses led many residents on the East Shore to lobby for property buyouts. Three neighborhoods, including the one pictured here, eventually participated in a federally funded program that purchased homes in predetermined areas at prestorm value. • Make permanent, with modifications, the standards of temporary 2013 Flood Resil- ience Text Amendment CONCLUSION There are a few key takeaways from the three case studies here that may be helpful for other coastal municipalities: Your zoning code can be used to enable local elevation and mitigate its impacts through design standards and bulk regulations. Design standards can help to encourage a continuity of local character and give developers and home owners a menu of potential options that can mitigate increased height, exposed piers and piles, and open spaces beneath the structure. The zoning and building code can be used to add additional freeboard above the FEMA Base Flood Elevation to account for sea -level rise. RESOURCES Homewood, George. 2018. "Planning for Resilience in Norfolk. Norfolk, Virginia: City of Norfolk. Available at https://bit. ly/2FIHuoS. Mandeville (Louisiana), City of. zoo7• B-3 Old Mandeville Business DistrictArea Plan: Design Regulations and Guidelines. Available athttps://bit.ly/2FJGuAJ. New York (New York) Planning Departmen City of."2oi8. "Climate Resiliency Avail-: able at https//on.nycgov/2n4muzh U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). zoi7. "New Regional Sea Level ,'- Scenarios Help Communities Prepare for Risks." Available at https://bit ty/2jQdvSt. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency ManagementAgency (FEMA)."zoi8 "Coastal Flood Risks: Achiev- ing Resilience Together" Available; at Ps://bit.ly/2rkMmv3 Scoring systems built into the site plan review process add predictability for devel- opers and home owners. Zoning overlays, like those used in Nor- folk and New York City, can be complicated, but they are also versatile tools to designate and apply regulations to areas of special con- cern (high risk, long-term retreat, capable of accommodating future density, etc.). Coastal municipalities are starting to take significant steps toward aligning their coastal flood adaptation goals with local implementa- tion processes, and zoning remains one of the most powerful tools at their disposal in guiding the overall form of and general direc- tion of development. The three cities included here demonstrate that even at a wide range of scales, zoning can greatly aid the goals of long- term flood resilience. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joseph DeAngelis is a planner, researcher, and coeditor of Zoning Practice with the American Planning Association in Chicago. Previously, he was a resiliency planner for the New York City Department of City Planning, where he worked on long- term planning and zoning solutions for communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy. Cover: Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans VOL. 35, NO. 6 Zoning Practice (ISSN i548—oi35) is a monthly publication of the American Planning Association. James M. Drinan, jo, Chief Executive Officer; David Rouse, FAICP, Managing Director of Research and Advisory Services; Joseph DeAngelis and David Morley, AICP, Editors. Subscriptions are available for $95 (U.S.) and $izo (foreign). Missing and damaged print issues: Contact APA Customer Service (312- 431-9100 orsubscriptions@planning.org) within 90 days of the publication date. ©zo18 by the American Planning Association, which has offices at zo5 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60601-5927, and 1030 15th St., NW, Suite 75o West, Washington, DC 20005-1503; planning.org. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means without permission in writing from APA. Printed on recycled paper, including 50-7o% recycled fiber and io% postconsumer waste. ZONINGPRACTICE 6.18 AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION I page?