Resilient Zoning: The Norfolk Experience
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What You'll Learn
- Understand different types of zoning tools and approaches to include in zoning ordinances to make the codes more resilient.
- How to evaluate your local code to determine whether resiliency goals are supported.
- Learn to retool your code to support resiliency goals.
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Norfolk, Virginia, is a historic, mid-size seaport city that harbors some of the nation's most important naval assets. It also has the highest rate of measured sea level rise of any East Coast city in the U.S., with estimates that rising seas will continue.
The city's comprehensive plan, plaNorfolk2030, identifies the key goal of making Norfolk a resilient city environmentally, economically, and socially. To effectively implement the plan, the city recently retooled its zoning ordinance.
This course explores the innovative regulatory tools included in the zoning ordinance, such as:
- the resiliency quotient
- provisions that strengthen protection of natural resources so they better absorb storms and sea level rise
- risk reduction from the consequences of flooding, hurricanes, and sea level rise
- safeguarding vulnerable areas from incompatible development
- considering sea level rise in reviewing development proposals
- considering sea level rise in locating critical facilities
- incentivizing new development to safe locations
- providing a diverse, safe, and affordable range of housing options
- providing a broad array of development options to support economic development
- removing obstacles for, and support redevelopment