Floodplain Management

Terri Turner, AICP
<p>Terri L Turner, AICP, CFM is the owner / principal of HALO Strategic Planning, LLC - a company she founded to continue to do the work she loves doing, even in retirement.&nbsp;</p><p>Ms Turner was the Development Services Administrator, Floodplain Manager, and Hazard Mitigation Specialist for the Augusta Planning and Development Department in Augusta, GA from July of 1997&nbsp;to July of 2022.</p><p>Ms Turner is a previous Association of State Floodplain Manager&rsquo;s (ASFPM&rsquo;s) Region 4 Director, the current ASFPM No Adverse Impact (NAI) Committee Co-Chair, an Associate with the ASFPM Foundation, and a previous member of her local (Aiken County, SC) Planning Commission for 21 years.&nbsp;Terri also serves on the Social Justice SubCommittee of ASFPM and the Climate Task Force for ASFPM, as well.</p><p>Terri has been awarded many prestigious awards for her work in GAFM, in ASFPM, and in the realm of floodplain management and hazard mitigation, being awarded the 2010 ASFPM Local Floodplain Manager of the Year Award, the 2010 Mary Fran Myers Scholarship from the Natural Hazards Center, numerous awards from the Georgia Association of Floodplain Management (GAFM) since its inception, the 2012 Champions of Change (Community&rsquo;s Choice) Award from the White House, the 2013 Limestone College Service to Community Award, and the 2015 Jerry Louthain Award for Distinguished Service from ASFPM. Terri would tell you that she would gladly give back all of the awards, even the one bestowed on her by the White House, if she could know for sure that her work had impacted the regulatory process in relation to flood risk reduction and the overall realm of hazard mitigation, had protected property, lives and the well-being of communities, and had impacted &ldquo;how we do business&rdquo; on these vital issues for generations to come. She summed it up nicely in a recent line she wrote in a FaceBook post: &ldquo;There is still much to do before I sleep&rdquo;. and her ultimate goal is a part of her email signature at work, &quot;Today, may I do my job so well, that I don&rsquo;t have to dread the storms of tomorrow; instead, may I be able to dance for joy in the rain!&quot; So, Terri spends pretty much all of her free time traveling the nation promoting planning principles, sound floodplain management and hazard mitigation and speaking on topics such as No Adverse Impact (NAI) Floodplain Management, Local Hazard Mitigation Initiatives, Risk-Reduction, Climate Change and Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainability and Resiliency, Green Infrastructure, and anything related to planning, sound floodplain management and hazard mitigation, to any audience that will sit still long enough to listen to what she has to say!</p><p>Terri just finished remodeling and sold an early 1950&rsquo;s caretaker&rsquo;s cottage in her long-time hometown of North Augusta, SC, is currently volunteering for NAI / CHARM Workshops, is Co-Lead on a NAI Legal Guide project for ASFPM&nbsp;and is busy spoiling her youngest grand-daughter, lecturing across the US and&nbsp;writing for periodicals nationwide.</p>